Re: ref counting in Bonobo

[sopwith redhat com (Elliot Lee)]

On 28 Sep 1999 15:23:43 -0400, Walt Pohl <pohl@math.washington.edu> wrote:
>
>I was wondering about the implications of the ref counting routines in the
>Unknown interface.  If I have a remote client that's holding a reference
>to an object in a server, and the client crashes, what happens?

The refcount sticks there and the object doesn't go away.

You can't solve problems like this without excessive complication - distributed garbage
collection is one of those Hard Research Problems :). Refcounting isn't great for
distributed apps, but it's a lot better than what we had before (nothing at all).

-- Elliot					http://developer.gnome.org/
The first thing a programmer needs to admit is that any program is by far
more complex than his own mind. Thats why he partitions it into neat
pieces and avoids complexity.