Dclerk oddity in 5.6.00

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Jean-Pierre A. Radley (Wed, 17 May 2006 14:59:05 -0400):

> OSR 6.0.0
> fP 5.6.00
>
> I'm in IUA, having selected a record using an Index.
>
> If I hit DEL, I go back to the Index Search Data Prompt, which was
> always the case in fP, and I see whatever I had previously typed in
> as my search string.
>
> In prior versions of fP, I could then enter some new search string.
> But now, typing anything, even a backspace, produces a SegV and a core
> dump.

We found a problem on some systems related to signal handling and
multiple threads.  (filePro 5.6 creates a secondary thread to handle
license renewals.)  Contact fpsupport and see if you can get a new
version to test if this fix takes care of your issue.

[...]
> If I try this several times, I will run into a message from the
> License Server: "License count exceeded", even though not a single
> fP process is running on the machine.  If I then do nothing and wait
> "a while" the License Server lets me in again.

If filePro crashes, it won't properly release its seat.  However,
the license manager will release the seat after a timeout period
if it detects that the client has "disappeared".  I believe that
the default is 7 minutes, and that this will be admin-configurable
in the next update.

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