Re: GModule unloading

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On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 09:33 -0500, Matt Hoosier wrote:

> That's not really what I'm asking. Suppose there's a regular,
> garden-variety shared library intended for any old application to use.
> It's DSO is /usr/lib/libboo.so.0.1.2. Boo registers GTypes statically
> like any other shared library does.
> 
> Now some GModule comes along and happens to dynamically link against
> libboo. The application which loads this module does not itself
> require libboo. So at the time that the module is dlopen()ed under the
> hood, libboo gets dynamically loaded also.
> 
> What happens when the GModule is unloaded? Does libboo also get dumped
> because the application itself doesn't directly link against
> liboo.so.0.1.2, or does it stay resident forever?

its a reasonable question. a prior question, however: why are you
worrying about this?


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