[Pidgin] #8758: perl plugin does not get unloaded

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#8758: perl plugin does not get unloaded
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 Reporter:  cavedon  |           Owner:  deryni 
     Type:  defect   |          Status:  pending
Milestone:           |       Component:  plugins
  Version:  2.5.5    |      Resolution:         
 Keywords:           |   Launchpad_bug:         
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Changes (by deryni):

  * status:  new => pending


Comment:

 Ah, that seems entirely reasonable and likely. It would seem to me that
 the correct fix for this would be to NULLif the exts pointer when it is
 destroyed in purple_plugin_destroy. Are you able to test if that fixes
 your problem?

 Adding
   loader_info->exts = NULL;
 immediately after the
   g_list_free(loader_info->exts);
 line in plugin.c should do it.

 As to the perl.so loading, yes, it appears that simply saving the return
 value of g_module_open and giving it to g_module_close is the correct
 thing to do here. Though if the above fixes your issue, I'm inclined to
 leave this alone as it has not appeared to cause anyone any problems so
 far. Though if you want to test this as well in your envionment that would
 be fine and is likely the worst-case scenario for this change to break
 things.

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