Dclerk oddity in 5.6.00

[Joe Chasan]

On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 07:06:30PM -0400, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> 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.

how would one know how many licenses are in use to see if they have
fallen victim to this scenario?
 
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