[racket-dev] results of dlopen (hence ffi) persistent across evaluations?

IIRC it's due to dlopen holding the reference to the deleted file in memory
until it's closed - it does not check with the filesystem again in the mean
time.  Windows will prevent the lib from being deleted.  For *nix it's
generally prevented by restricted access to the lib (and assuming people
with higher privilege won't do such things).

Cheers,
yc

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 8:22 AM, Noel Welsh <noelwelsh at gmail.com> wrote:

> AFAIK it is unavoidable.
>
> N.
>
> On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 4:08 PM, John Clements <clements at brinckerhoff.org>
> wrote:
> > It appears that the results of ffi-lib are persistent across evaluations.
> Specifically, if I use ffi-lib to load a library, then go to the filesystem
> and replace this library with garbage, subsequent evaluations still
> cheerfully use the version that I just destroyed.
> >
> > I'm guessing that this behavior is unavoidably inherited from the OS
> (this is mac OS X).  If so, may I add a warning to the ffi-lib docs that
> states this? If this is not something unavoidable, of course, I'd much
> rather just change it.
> >
> > John
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Cheers,
yc

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