[Spice-devel] [PATCH spice-gtk] Add call of gst_deinit at program exit

Christophe de Dinechin christophe.de.dinechin at gmail.com
Thu Oct 19 14:13:11 UTC 2017


> On 19 Oct 2017, at 15:10, Daniel P. Berrange <berrange at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Oct 19, 2017 at 03:01:17PM +0200, Christophe de Dinechin wrote:
>>> One reason is that you may use a library dynamically, and you may dlclose() it, and then atexit() will likely crash. 
>> 
>> Is that a real or theoretical scenario? Who loads this library dynamically
>> currently?
> 
> Anyone using SPICE from a non-C language will have dlopen'd it and potentially
> later dlclose it. 

Note that here, the symbol passed to atexit is in gstreamer, not in spice.

> 
> Regards,
> Daniel
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