Re: bonobo-activation; freeing base services ...

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs noisehavoc org>]

On 27Oct2001 10:57AM (-0400), Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> Michael Meeks <michael ximian com> writes: 
> > > I don't really know either. Michael, are your changes avoid leaking
> > > remote resources or to free memory?
> > 
> > 	They avoid a warning saying:
> > 
> > ** WARNING **: ORB: a total of 2 refs to 2 ORB objects were leaked
> 
> How are you printing the warning if I call exit()? In another atexit()
> handler?
> 
> I would say that this is debugging code only, should only be turned on
> for debugging, and should use a shutdown function which app
> programmers can call explicitly if they are doing debugging.  We
> definitely should not be installing global atexit() handlers from
> libraries just for some debug hack. Give the app control over this.

Better yet have an environment variable control the debugging handlers
so you don't need to recompile for memory debugging.

 - Maciej