15046 - crash because of unloading dll's while they are used

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Core :: XPCOM, defect, P2)

Description

[kipp]

If a library, say rdf, uses the component manager to create a factory and that
factory creation fails in the rdf library, then the component manager unloads
the offending dll (!) which triggers a crash because it unloads a dll which is
present on the call stack.

In general, you can't unload the dll unless you know that it's safe, and to do
that you have to ask it (it might be exporting multiple factories which have
created objects, etc.)

Comment 1

[Suresh Duddi (gone)]

Well the dll in question could have other factories that do work. That I think
is the problem.

Comment 2

[Suresh Duddi (gone)]

Code fix.

Comment 3

[leger]

Adding crash keyword