Re: [PATCH] [RFC] Add g_*_deinit() API

[Matthias Clasen <matthias clasen gmail com>]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 9:46 AM, Ole André Vadla Ravnås
<oleavr gmail com> wrote:
> I'm currently working on adding API to GLib/GObject/GIO for explicitly
> cleaning up statically allocated resources, like TLS keys, threads,
> handles, heap blocks, etc.
>
> This is clearly not useful to regular GLib-based applications where
> GLib has the same life-time as the host process itself, so such
> applications/libraries will behave just like before, because they
> won't be calling any deinit functions at exit/unload.  However, in
> certain applications, like for example Frida
> (http://code.google.com/p/frida-ire/), there is a shared library which
> has its own private copy of GLib/GObject/GIO statically linked in, and
> this library gets injected into already running applications in order
> to do runtime instrumentation of APIs and things like that.


Lets just say: don't do that ?