[libvirt] PATCH: 11/25: Public APIs for incrementing refcount
Richard W.M. Jones
rjones at redhat.com
Thu Jan 15 17:18:40 UTC 2009
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 05:43:08PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> With the domain events code, the callbacks triggered upon events get given
> a virDomainPtr object instance. In many cases it'd be desirable to grab
> this object and keep it in your app code. Unfortunately it is free'd the
> moment the callback finishes executing.
>
> When allowing multiple threads to access a single virConnectPtr object
> it is neccessary to ensure no thread releases it (virConnectCLose) while
> another thread is still using it.
>
> The way to address both of these problems is to allow an application to
> take an explicit reference on the object in question. So this patch
> exposes methods to allow an app to increment the ref count on all our
> public objects. To release the ref count, the existing virConectClose/
> virDOmainFree, etc methods suffice
>
> include/libvirt/libvirt.h | 6 +
> include/libvirt/libvirt.h.in | 6 +
> src/libvirt.c | 183 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> src/libvirt_public.syms | 12 ++
> 4 files changed, 206 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
Poor man's garbage collection ... +1.
Rich.
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