Re: GWorkspace ddbd dying when mdextractor connects

[Riccardo Mottola]

Hi,

On 02/16/13 22:47, Fred Kiefer wrote:
> Looks like I was wrong. The signature of userMetadataForPath: hasn't 
> changed during the 64bit changes, so this is completely unrelated.
> My new guess is that the problem is in the ddbd code or in the NSProxy 
> handling. You could investigate the first possibility by adding a lot 
> of debug logs into ddbd.m. For the second option Richard is the one to 
> talk to.
>
> There is one strange thing I see in the code in ddbd.m. You don't 
> retain the connection, still you release it in the -dealloc method. 
> Most likely you should retain it in the -init method. Forgetting that, 
> together with this code in main():
>
>     CREATE_AUTORELEASE_POOL (pool);
>       DDBd *ddbd = [[DDBd alloc] init];
>     RELEASE (pool);
>
> may result in the connection going away too soon.
Perhaps? But why? And moreover, why doesn't that happen on 32bit and on 
all machines, Autoreleasepools are hopefully predictable.

Sebastian, as a test, you could remove the second release

Riccardo