Re: [PATCH/RFC] Fix refcount on some Python callbacks

Jelmer Vernooij <jelmer_at_samba.org> writes:

> callback_typemap. At the moment the reference counter of the Python
> function is not increased when passing it as a baton. This means that if
> Subversion is the only one still referencing the function it will be
> garbage collected, causing Subversion to segfault when it tries to call
> the Python callback.

I work around this bug in gvn by holding onto extra copies of the
callback functions myself.

> However, this patch doesn't decrement the reference counter once the
> callback is no longer used since there is no place to free batons as far
> as I know. That means we'll potentially keep Python methods around in
> memory that aren't used. Is that a problem or is there perhaps some way
> to work around this?

That is a problem. Hopefully you or someone else can find the
solution...

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Eric Gillespie <*> epg_at_pretzelnet.org
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