[Info-vax] calloc fails with access violation

[Jan-Erik Söderholm]

Jan-Erik Söderholm wrote:
> Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing wrote:
>> 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
>>
> 
> WASD runs faster in generall and runs SOAP calls (using gSOAP)
> using FastCGI faster then Apache according to the gSOAP for
> OpenVMS maintainer. And gSOAP (just as WASD) "free". The next
> gSOAP kit (not sure it has been released yet, but should be in
> a few weeks) comes with FastCGI examples for WASD also (apart
> from Apahce).
> 

Well, the new gSOAP kit with WASD examples *is* released... :-)
http://gsoaponopenvms.blogspot.com/