Re: Crash in ATL COM service

From:
vbmrupp <vbmrupp@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.atl
Date:
Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:26:04 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID:
<7477abd8-7c61-4989-bfe9-291ba60d3a91@v7g2000vbd.googlegroups.com>
On Jan 27, 12:06 am, sb <s...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

I have a ATL COM service that has a call to _Module.Term() at the very en=

d. I

was trying to find some documentation about what that call is really doin=

g

and haven't found anything to help me. I'm seeing a crash in my service w=

hen

it exits and I'm not sure why. When the service starts up it spins off a
thread that does some logging using a 3rd party COM component. I was tryi=

ng

to clean that up after the Term() call...if I move the clean up code to p=

rior

to these calls:

CoSuspendClassObjects();
_Module.RevokeClassObjects();

Not sure if I have a COM related issue or a problem that is caused by a
thread running the service process exits.

Any thoughts?

Thank you


According to "Inside ATL" _Module is defined as
class CExeModule : public CComModule
{
public:
    LONG Unlock();
    DWORD dwThreadID;
    HANDLE hEventShutdown;
    void MonitorShutdown();
    bool StartMonitor();
    bool bActivity;
};
extern CExeModule _Module;

So it is inherited from CComModule.
I believe it is found in the atlbase.h

I don't have it in front of me to verify that.

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