[OpenWrt-Devel] [PATCH] libubus: handle NULL ubus_context in all sync requests by creating a local instance

[Felix Fietkau]

On 2014-07-17 17:25, Alexandru Ardelean wrote:
> This can serve as a convenience for sync requets, since no explicit
> ubus_connect() + ubus_free() need to be done.
> 
> It can also help in cases where there are async + sync requests,
> where one async request is working and sync calls are done.
> Seems to create some weird races, probably because of possible
> concurrent poll() calls on the same fd.
I don't like this approach. If you want to avoid races in your code
between async calls and sync calls, just create a separate context for
sync calls.
Also, allowing NULL to be passed as context creates the illusion that it
is generally sane to do so. In the case of adding/removing objects it
makes no sense and is completely misleading: any object that you add
with the internally allocated ubus context gets deleted as soon as the
context is freed.

- Felix
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