[gdal-dev] FlushCache and SyncToDisk

[Ari Jolma]

Frank Warmerdam kirjoitti:
> Ari Jolma wrote:
>> Frank,
>>
>> I may have wondered and asked this before but anyway. Why don't the 
>> dataset and layer destructors check, if they were opened as update 
>> and call FlushCache or SyncToDisk in the destructor?
>>
>> I thought about adding this into the wrappers but eAccess is a 
>> protected member of GDALDataset for example.
>
> Ari,
>
> All driver implementations are supposed to flush to disk when the
> datasource/dataset is destroyed.  If they don't, it is a bug in the
> driver implementation and should (IMHO) be addressed there.
>
> A problem I think we have had sometimes in the swig bindings is
> that confusion about reference counting has resulted in the
> datasource/dataset objects not being properly destroyed.  But I
> think we also need to solve the root of this problem (if it still
> exists), not work around the symptoms.

Yes, whatever the problem was that I thought I saw, is not there any 
more. Sorry.

Ari

>
> Best regards,


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