classloading from so

Wed Sep 25 12:53:00 GMT 2002

>>>>> "Hans" == Boehm, Hans <hans_boehm@hp.com> writes:

Hans> Hopefully the class loader is referenced from a static variable
Hans> in the loaded library? Thus this can never happen because the
Hans> garbage collector views the library static data as roots and
Hans> would thus never collect the class loader?
That's a good point, which I hadn't considered.
For a class loaded by SharedLibLoader we could register the `loader'
field as a disappearing link. Would that work correctly?
Hans> I say "hopefully" because I'm pretty sure we have no mechanism
Hans> to test whether a static method of some class is still on a call
Hans> stack somewhere. Thus if we could unload such classes, we could
Hans> probably unload them while the code is still running, which
Hans> would be a bug, not to mention security hole.
Also a good point. There has to be a way to fix this though.
Tom