[pulseaudio-discuss] Current problems with git master

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Tanu Kaskinen at 26/03/11 04:12 did gyre and gimble:
> On Sat, 2011-03-26 at 00:13 +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote:
>> FWIW, the attached patch seems to work for me... simply not ref'ing the
>> core. If this is OK, then I'll push it.
> 
> Yep, my bad. I think there's a rule that object A shall not ref object B
> if B owns A. And here core owns everything, including the dbus objects.
> Nobody should ref core. It's then a bit strange why the core is
> refcounted in the first place, but I guess it's because the intention is
> to make the Pulseaudio core pluggable into other programs, and those
> other programs may want to have multiple references to the Pulseaudio
> core object.

Cool. Yeah I did kinda wonder why the core was refcounted too when
looking into this, but your explanation makes sense (even if it's not
use like that at the moment - to the best of my knowledge).

Col

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