Mon May 07 22:23:27 2012: Request 12057 was acted upon.
Transaction: Correspondence added by patcat88
Queue: Win32-API
Subject: dll not unloaded if the first new fails
Broken in: (no value)
Severity: Critical
Owner: Nobody
Requestors: jeff.h...@hotsos.com
Status: new
Ticket <URL: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=12057 >
On Tue Mar 29 15:07:12 2005, guest wrote:
> I propose the following:
> If LoadLibrary() succeeds but the subsequent GetProcAddress() calls
> fail, then FreeLibrary() if Procedures{$dll} isn't defined or
> equals zero.
>
> I've attached the diff output.
I dont like the patch, but this is absolutely a problem. We are leaking
dll handles. It should be pretty easy to put a FreeLibrary line in this
section in new sub.
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#### ...if all that fails, set $! accordingly
if(!$hproc) {
$! = Win32::GetLastError();
DEBUG "FAILED GetProcAddress for Proc '$proc': $!\n";
return undef;
}
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