[Libguestfs] [PATCH 0/3] ruby: Fix event handler failure

[Chris Lalancette]

On 08/25/11 - 02:04:57PM, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> I won't pretend I really understand what's going on here.  I've CC'd
> this message to Chris since he might have a better idea.
> 
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=733297
> 
> In this bug, it appears that the event log callback goes out of scope
> and is garbage collected.  (This is despite the fact we registered it
> as a global root).  When we invoke the callback later, rb_funcall
> raises this exception:
> 
>   wrong argument type Proc (expected Data)
> 
> I checked the type of the callback, and indeed it changes from T_DATA
> (normal) to T_NONE (raises this exception).
> 
> My workaround simply checks that the type != T_NONE before calling.

Nothing jumps to mind here Rich.  I took a quick look at the code in libguestfs
that is doing this, and it seems sane, so I don't have a good explanation for
you.  If I find some time this afternoon I'll take a deeper look and see if I
come up with any ideas.

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Chris Lalancette