[issue17922] Crash in clear_weakref

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

Le mardi 14 mai 2013 à 15:28 +0000, Jan Safranek a écrit :
> libpython2.7.so is not unloaded because python extensions, e.g.
> /usr/lib64/python2.7/lib-dynload/_heapq.so depend on it. And _heapq.so
> was dlopenened by Python and it was not dlclosed -> glibc does not
> unload it.
> 
> It seems that Py_Finalize() does not even close opened shared objects.
> Isn't it a bug?

What do you call shared objects in this context? .so files?
Indeed they are not closed, because usually extension modules are not
reload-safe: therefore, their basic structures are kept eternally once
initialized.

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