Re: Unloading classes

[Anthony Green <green at redhat dot com>]

On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 18:05, Jeff Sturm wrote:
> It's the simplest way to satisfy the condition that a class cannot be
> unloaded while its classloader is reachable, as described in JLS 12.7:

Ok - thanks for the reference.

> > Another interesting question is how to handle System.loadLibrary().  Can
> > we dlclose() them when the class calling System.loadLibrary is
> > finalized?
> 
> I think you need to guarantee no static method of the class is executing
> when you dlclose().  This is hard with the current GC.

Hmm... I don't really follow this.  How could a class being finalized
have any methods executing?

I guess if classes don't get finalized until their loader is finalized,
we could have the class loader keep track of libraries loaded via
System.loadLibrary, kind of like the SharedLibLoader.

AG