Re: Bug in NSRunLoop?

[Marcus Müller]

On Monday, June 10, 2002, at 06:46 PM, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:

> I think the bug is in your test code.
> You forgot to retain the handle for the new incoming connection ... so 
> the handle is
> being deallocated, and the connection shut down.

Congratulations, that's the bug! ;-) I didn't notice it, because ...

> It may be working one MacOS-X because the sequence of autorelease pools 
> being used is
> different, or it may be that MacOS-X has a memory leak.

... the retainCount of that socket is 2 on Mac OS X (as opposed to 1 on 
GNUstep). It's strange, however, that the retainCount bug doesn't kick 
in for the first connection, though. AFAIK I always implemented socket 
server code since OPENSTEP this way. But it's pretty simple to "fix" my 
code to retain and release in the appropriate places, so it will work on 
GNUstep and on OS X.

Thanks for figuring that out!

Cheers,

  Marcus

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