Crash in ~KApplication (was Re: Crash on exit, seemingly caused by netacces)

[Dawit A.]

On Monday 03 June 2002 15:42, Klas Kalass wrote:
> Am Sonntag, 2. Juni 2002 22:37 schrieb David Faure:
> > On Saturday 01 June 2002 20:21, Klas Kalass wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > > I think the following happens:
> > > On exit, the destructors are called, destructing KGlobals::_instance on
> > > the way. When the kapplication destructor is done, all objects are
> > > automatically deleted and in AuthDataList destructor the cached Data
> > > shall be purged, but to check for the existance of the CacheDaemon a
> > > KDEsuClient needs to be created which needs KGlobal::_instance in its
> > > constructor to get the current locale.
> >
> > This "I need to create something upon destruction" scheme looks wrong to
> > me. If this AuthDataList stuff has to be cleaned up, I assume it means
> > it's been used previously, so why doesn't it keep the KDEsuClient around,
> > when doing that, in order to reuse it upon destruction?
>
> I am not sure about security implications: The KDEsuClient opens a socket
> in the constructor and that one would be around until AuthDataList is
> destroyed. If noone screems "NO" I will make a patch during LT and post it
> as soon as I am back online, hopefully well tested.

I already made that change because there were other applications that 
exhibited the same issue, but I forgot to consider the security implications 
of doing so.  I will look into it further.

Regards,
Dawit A.