At 02:39 AM 16/08/2006, you wrote:

>Sorry if posting this here is unappropriate, but for some reason I
>am unable to post to firebird-devel. I hope this catches someone's eye anyway.

You must subscribe to firebird-devel in order to post there. Go to
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If you attempt to subscribe and still cannot post to the list, it's
possibly a spamcop issue. However, there is nothing to prevent you
from posting your issue to the tracker with a good, reproducible example.

A crash situation in a beta is NOT an issue for the support
list. This is clearly explained at the beginning of the release notes.

>I am consistently getting a crash when calling the Services API on
>Windows Server 2003. The problem does not appear on other platforms.
>There is a clear reason for the crash in the code of Firebird (RC4:
>alice.cpp, line 619). But of course, it is always possible that I am
>doing something wrong.
>
>Anyway, in alice.cpp, program execution proceeds as follows:
>
>1. common_main is called and AliceGlobals gblInstance is created.
>tdgbl is a pointer to it. tdgbl->sw_redirect is REDIRECT and
>tdgbl->output_file is 0xFFFFFFFF (perhaps uninitialized).
>
>2. Execution proceeds normally and reaches line 617 (normal
>execution, no errors). Still, tdgbl->sw_redirect is REDIRECT and
>tdgbl->output_file is 0xFFFFFFFF. Because of this, the condition
>"tdgbl->sw_redirect == REDIRECT && tdgbl->output_file != NULL" is
>true so execution proceeds to line 619.
>
>3. Line 619 crashes because calling fclose( 0xFFFFFFFF ) causes an
>access violation.
>
>Is this a bug in FB or am I calling the Services API in a wrong way?

You tell me. When you present your reproducible case, show HOW you
are calling the Services API.

>If this is a bug, has this been reported already to the Tracker (I
>didn't find anything related).

Considering the trace description, make sure your report includes
precise detail about the connection path you are using to reproduce
this problem.

^ heLen