Re: Serious Bonobo Problem for Sun

[Colm Smyth <Colm Smyth sun com>]

>From: ERDI Gergo <cactus cactus rulez org>
>X-Sender: cactus ds9 cactus
>To: Colm Smyth <Colm Smyth sun com>
>cc: gnome-components-list gnome org
>Subject: Re: Serious Bonobo Problem for Sun
>MIME-Version: 1.0
>
>On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Colm Smyth wrote:
>
>> 3. client specifies idle timeout to server (a.k.a client leases an
>>    interface from a server); this is relatively straightforward, it
>>    would simply require adding an idle_timeout(int nsecs) method to Bonobo's
>>    Unknown interface; if the client does not call the interface within
>>    nsecs seconds, the server decrements the reference count for that
>>    client; this mechanism requires each object server to maintain a
>
>Decrements the reference count by what amount?
>This can lead to seriously fucked-up situations when references are passed
>around to different clients or when one client holds multiple references
>to a single object.

That's fine, just track the number of references per-client. I don't recommend
this option, so I'm not so interested in pursuing the details of the
solution.

Colm.

>-- 
>   .--= ULLA! =----------------------------.  finger cactus cactus rulez org
>   \      http://cactus.rulez.org           \   for PGP public key
>    `----------= cactus cactus rulez org =--'
>Sex is love without complications. Love is complications without sex.
>