Re: Hooking into garbage collection

[Rena <hyperhacker@...>]

On Mon, Dec 30, 2013 at 5:44 PM, Finn Wilcox <finnw@finnw.me.uk> wrote:

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On 30/12/2013 22:38, Rena wrote:
> //we can no longer unlock this->mutex_refcount, so the other thread
> is //going to block forever or segfault

No it is not, because it does not have a reference to the object
(otherwise refcount would not be 0.)

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Of course...

It still seems like there's an issue though. If I let the child threads keep running after the main thread exits, they don't shut down correctly. I have extensive debug output logging what each thread is doing, and after the main thread's destructor fires, some child threads just stop abruptly (sometimes in the middle of writing a line). If I don't explicitly load my module in each child thread, then they'll even segfault. (Maybe trying to access some code in that module after it's been unloaded?) Is there something else I have to do to allow child threads to keep running after the main thread finishes?

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