[Gambas-user] DnsClient example: never ever use _free(), right?

[Tobias Boege]

On Wed, 23 Jul 2014, Beno?t Minisini wrote:
> No, you should not call _free(). You should even never have to implement 
> it in Gambas code.
> 
> The problem is that DnsClient enables its internal watch too early, and 
> disables it too late.
> 
> It should enable the watch the first time it is actually needed - when 
> GetHostName() or GetHostIP() is called - and not when the Async property 
> is set.
> 
> And it should disable the watch when the async operation is terminated 
> or when Stop() is called.
> 
> If you can do the change, you are welcome! :-)

Done in revision #6397. I changed the provocative parts of the DnsClient
example on the way. A small test script with two asynchronous DnsClients
reports no memory leaks.

Regards,
Tobi

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