Re: GIOChannel close vs. unref

[Helmethead <hoshem mel comcen com au>]

On Sun, May 06, 2001 at 09:52:30AM -0700, Ron Steinke wrote:
> > From: Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>
> >
> > Generally, mixing up memory management with actions such as closing 
> > a stream is a bad idea, though more of an argument could be made
> > for it if the underlying stream was created along with the 
> > GIOChannel with g_io_channel_new_from_file().
> >
> 
> The g_io_channel_new_from_file() case is exactly what I was worring
> about. Sounds like GIOChannel needs a close_on_final_unref flag.

In most cases I think you just want to create the io channel, add a watch and unref the io channel, and in your watch handler close it at liberty. So it's not all that complicated :)