Unexplained error in channels

[Ravi Chamarty <ravi@ittc.ukans.edu>]

Hi,

 I am presently using a variation of socktest example(written in C) as
used in the Moab/OSKit. When the socket based outchannel is being
destroyed, I see the following error:

../nodeos/impl/ani_chan.h: 217
Failed assertion: 'chan->refs >= 0'

 I failed to understand the importance of the field 'refs'. I
understand that this part of the code is being called by the fn.
'ani_chan_deinit'(src/channel.c) which in turn is being called when the
flow is being destroyed using 'ani_flow_destroy_internal'(src/flow.c) .Can
someone explain what's going wrong here?

Thanks in advance,
Ravi 



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