[Mono-dev] crashes in glib hangs (not exits) program

[Robert Jordan]

D Bera wrote:
>>  I noticed that some unmanaged crashes in glib could leave the
>> program running but hanged. See below for a sample program (the bad
>> g_free was used to deliberately crash).
> 
> Did some more testing to reveal that Mono behaves unpredictably upon
> crashes in unmanaged glib. I have filed a bug with a couple of
> testcases, see
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=381928

Why are you not using the managed GType wrapper? And how about reusing
GString? Or at least look at its source to see how it's supposed to
be p/invoked correctly.

It's impossible for mono to recover from unmanaged crashes. This is by 
design.

Robert