[Mono-dev] More _wapi_handle_unref fun

[Brian Crowell]

Well, my program has run for at least a week now, and it just now gave up the 
ghost. I now have a screen full of these messages:

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** (/opt/MyProgram/MyProgram.exe:2603): WARNING **: _wapi_handle_unref: 
Attempting to unref unused handle 0x1
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They are all identical; the screen shows eight in a row, and I don't know how 
many came before it.

After some time (probably based on my program's System.Timers.Timer instance) 
the screen starts showing strange exceptions, such as a failed Console.WriteLine 
call with some low-level exception or a Socket.Send call that insists "The 
descriptor is not a socket."

This is from a recent (1.1.16-ish) checkout of Mono; I still heavily use the 
System.Timers.Timer class and invoke outside processes.

Several questions:

1. Does anyone know what might cause this? Is it possible that I've exhausted 
all possible handles because the program has run for so long?

2. Is there a way I can make Mono abort when this occurs? This way, I can at 
least restart the process, rather than let it think that it still has any valid 
data left.

--Brian