Re: investigation into replacing ref. counts with leases

[Martin Baulig <martin home-of-linux org>]

Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com> writes:

> Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com> writes: 
> > The problem I ran into is that extending the leases from client processes seems to
> > require some kind of regular timer. The glib timeout is not satisfactory because
> > it's tied to the event loop, and I'm not sure what I should use for
> > the timer.
> 
> Keeping in mind my earlier statement about in-process
> vs. out-of-process - the timer in an event loop is probably fine for
> renewing out-of-process leases, but I can't imagine any timer that
> would be remotely a good idea for in-process objects.

Also keep debuggers in mind; you clearly don't want all your components
to timeout-destroy themselves if you stop the container in a debugger.

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Martin Baulig
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