[openbeos-midi] Re: midi_server surviving app crash

>> Imagine the following scenario: An application A registers a
>> BMidiConsumer at the midi_server. Another app B connects
>> a BMidiProducer to the consumer and starts sending 
>> Midi messages to the producer. Suddenly app A crashes.
>
>Brrr, it sounds like drama!
>;-)

LOL :)

>> How treats the midi_server such a situation?
>
>Well, the IPC used by midikit2 seems to be ports, looking at some private 
>members of BMidiConsummer and BMidiRoster private methods.
>BeOS kernel automagicly delete ports owned by dying teams.
>I guess midi_server/BMidi* classes just take care to always check 
>port i/o routines for B_BAD_PORT_ID return code, and this case close any 
>active 
>connection made on this endpoint & remove all dead midi endpoint(s).

Yes that makes sense. I guess it is very unlikely that the midi_server
or whatever misses the death of a port and instead communicates
with the incarnation of the port.

- Michael

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