[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 108960] [GTK] Remove subresource leaks from WebKit1 and WebKit2

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108960





--- Comment #23 from Martin Robinson <mrobinson at webkit.org>  2013-02-13 08:41:16 PST ---
(In reply to comment #22)
> (In reply to comment #21)
> > Carlos brought up a good point that the old API returned borrowed references, so we'd need to preserve that behavior to avoid further leaks. Perhaps you can create the resources for get_resources and then deref them in a timeout?
> 
> Looks like using a timeout might be the only option for derefing the objects although creating a race condition seems like a bad idea. How long of a timeout do you think would be required to minimize the likely hood of derefing the resources while they are still in use?

That's a good question. I assumed that anyone wanting to use the resources "later" would have increased their reference count, but perhaps that isn't the case. Do you know if Midori uses them later?

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