Re: [bug-serveez] Preserving object props on sockets

[Mike Gran]

> Thanks for testing.  Latest iteration now is rebased on the support
> for server and servertype smobs.  (That support is necessary in order to
> justify the removal of svz:server:state-{ref,set!} (after rewriting the
> mandel and icecast servers to use object properties, of course).)
> 
> Rumninations follow; feel free to ignore.
> 
> Anyway, the remaining design worry is that to manage socket smobs in the
> same way, libserveez needs to add a pre-finalization hook for sockets so
> that guile-server can specify a function to invalidate the SMOB/C-object
> coupling.  Adding the the libserveez API is not an immediate problem,
> actually -- the doubt lies w/ whether or not such extension is a one-off
> decision, or something that will recur (w/ other types).  If the latter
> is possible, then maybe there are different ways to design the change in
> API so that is (will be) less hodge-podge.  The primary impact for any
> libserveez change in this area is for wrapping code (such as for Guile).

At the risk of saying something poorly thought out... for the
pre-finalization, you might be able to have that occur in the
SMOB mark procedure (?).