On Saturday 2017-08-19 10:43, Eric Leblond wrote: >>> Hence I defined a global init and deinit. But maybe it does not >>> really make sense and could be attached to each context or init >>> could be done at first usage. >> >> My idea was to implement simple reference counting to see whether >> the library was already initialized and whether it is safe to >> deinit. Of course this needs some serialization for thread-safety. >> >> Or maybe the deinit can be ignored completely and >> nft_global_init() just has to check whether data is already >> initialized or not. > >I have used numerous libraries providing a global init or deinit. >For now we could easily skip it with your approach or another but I >prefer we have it existing so it is available later in case of >needs. If a global init - more correctly, a singleton init - is needed, can't it just implicitly be called from make_me_a_new_context()? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
