Re: EPICS V4 question

[Michael Davidsaver <mdavidsaver@gmail.com>]

On 10/13/2016 06:37 AM, Benjamin Franksen wrote:
> On 09.10.2016 20:37, Michael Davidsaver wrote:
>>  For various annoying reasons it is *not* sufficient to let a connected
>> Channel be destroyed (as in c++ destructor).  Calling Channel::destory()
>> is mandatory.
> 
> Hi Michael
> 
> out of curiosity: could you elaborate on that? Has this to do with
> possible exceptions that may be thrown when disconnecting a channel?
> (Throwing out of a destructor is commonly seen as something to be
> avoided.) Is this different in the Java implementation?

As I recall, the client context is holding a strong reference to the
channel, and destroy() causes this to be released.  Careful application
of weak_ptr<> could avoid this.