nix_api_expr: ensure destructors are called for builder/state#14573
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I found this because of a test failure on cygwin in nix_api_expr_test.nix_eval_state_lookup_path: 'std::filesystem::__cxx11::filesystem_error' what(): filesystem error: cannot remove all: Device or resource busy [...] [.../my_state/db/db.sqlite] LocalState was never getting destroyed due to a reference leak. These _free functions use an 'operator delete' which doesn't call the destructor for the type. Fixes: 309d558
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Sucks that we are using the operator new/delete that just allocate raw bytes. I have no clue why it's done in this incredibly janky way.
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As far as I can tell it's to make it easier to init self-references in structs, like: It's clever, but it's only used in two places. And obviously it's pretty easy to get wrong, because it was originally mixing different new/delete operators which lead to the fix that caused the leak... |
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I found this because of a test failure on cygwin in nix_api_expr_test.nix_eval_state_lookup_path:
'std::filesystem::__cxx11::filesystem_error'
what(): filesystem error: cannot remove all: Device or resource busy
[...]
[.../my_state/db/db.sqlite]
LocalState was never getting destroyed due to a reference leak. These _free functions use an 'operator delete' which doesn't call the destructor for the type.
Fixes: 309d558