Re: GIO Async. user data life time

[Dan Winship <danw gnome org>]

On 08/12/2011 10:15 AM, Matthew Bucknall wrote:
> Any better suggestions would be much appreciated. I'm hoping the
> answer won't be that it doesn't matter if user data doesn't get
> cleaned up because if the main loop stops the program is usually
> terminating anyway - I know this is the attitude taken in some parts
> of glib. In my particular case, cleanup does matter.

But if you start an async operation and then don't let it finish, you're
going to be leaking memory inside libgio anyway even if you figure out a
way to not leak your own objects. So I think cancelling all the
outstanding ops and waiting for them to finish really is the best solution.

-- Dan