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Bug 873152
Opened 12 years ago
Updated 2 years ago
Add explicit rooting API to ctypes
Categories
(Core :: js-ctypes, defect)
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NEW
People
(Reporter: benjamin, Unassigned)
References
(Blocks 1 open bug)
Details
ctypes clients want to do this:
callCFunction(arg, function() {
... callback
});
This is obviously rooting-unsafe if the function is asynchronous. But unfortunately the alternatives are often pretty gross. In particular, you'd need to save the callback in something accessible from a global variable.
I'd like to propose that we add an explicit rooting API to ctypes to make this case easier:
var cb = function() {
... callback
ctypes.unroot(cb);
};
ctypes.root(cb);
callCFunction(arg, cb);
You could even add some JS decoration (assuming the callback is once-only).
Updated•2 years ago
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Severity: normal → S3
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