In article <7458.1390534...@splode.eterna.com.au>, matthew green <m...@eterna.com.au> wrote: > >> Log Message: >> Implement in-module ref-counting, and do not allow auto-unload if there >> are existing references. >> >> Note that manual unloading is not prevented. >> >> OK christos@ >> >> XXX Also note that there is still a small window where the ref-count can >> XXX be decremented, and then the process/thread preempted. If auto-unload >> XXX happens before that thread can return from the module's code, bad >> XXX things (tm) could happen. > >in this case, please simply disallow unload for this module always. >if the race is fixed, it can be enabled again.
I think that most module unloads suffer from this race, any ideas how to fix it? christos
