Re: [PATCH] [RFC] Add g_*_deinit() API

["Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)" <zeenix gmail com>]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 4:49 PM, Matthias Clasen
<matthias clasen gmail com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Ole André Vadla Ravnås
> <oleavr gmail com> wrote:
>> I'm currently working on adding API to GLib/GObject/GIO for explicitly
>> cleaning up statically allocated resources, like TLS keys, threads,
>> handles, heap blocks, etc.
>>
>> This is clearly not useful to regular GLib-based applications where
>> GLib has the same life-time as the host process itself, so such
>> applications/libraries will behave just like before, because they
>> won't be calling any deinit functions at exit/unload.  However, in
>> certain applications, like for example Frida
>> (http://code.google.com/p/frida-ire/), there is a shared library which
>> has its own private copy of GLib/GObject/GIO statically linked in, and
>> this library gets injected into already running applications in order
>> to do runtime instrumentation of APIs and things like that.
>
>
> Lets just say: don't do that ?

  Sounds like a perfectly valid use-case to me so shouldn't the
question rather be "Why not?".

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Regards,

Zeeshan Ali (Khattak)
FSF member#5124