mozilla/rust — Issue #1789: Tasks should not hold a ref to their parent
Author: brson
Created: 2012-02-09 01:54:55+00:00
State: open
Labels: bug, rt

Tasks are reference counted and every child task holds a reference to its parent until the child is destroyed or becomes unsupervised. This could have many bizarre consequences, keeping lots of resources around long after they should be released.