[Info-vax] calloc fails with access violation

[Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing]

In article <edb3eb11-1119-45e8-9ae9-5247f2b3fc24 at w41g2000yqb.googlegroups.com>, Jose Cuevas <jcuevas at mac.com> writes:
>The code is running fine with descriptors.
>
>Thanks to every body and in particular to Jim Duff, sapienzaf, Bob
>Gezelter, Richard Maher, Stephen Hoffman for their valuable samples.
>
>To Stephen Hoffman, will look into using your port of libwww.
>
>Not to prolong the topic any longer, or offend some people on the list
>with our ignorance but if any body cares to explain/expeculate on the
>issue of descriptors and calloc crashing please do so even if it is
>off the list. I would appreciate the lesson...
>
>Finally we are using Apache on OpenVMS as a bridge to run Cobol
>applications from our student system from a PHP front end, yet with
>over 12,000 doing registration among other things, Apache does take a
>big bite of the system resources, any ideas or experiences on
>implementing SOAP, RPC, REST or anything of that sort with OpenVMS
>will be appreciated. (and we are a state university, so money is a big
>constrain for us...)

Haven't looked at this for awhile, but when I did: the WASD webserver
ran faster and used fewer resources than Apache for similar workloads.
(It's free, too.)

-- Alan