Phase 1 has been done. On Sat, 25 Jan 2014, matthew green wrote:
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?phase one: disable auto-unload. phase two: ??? the rest left as an exercise for the reader. :-) !DSPAM:52e37018210366601841969!
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