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unload(n) Tcl Built-In Commands unload(n)
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NAME
unload - Unload machine code
SYNOPSIS
unload ?switches? fileName
unload ?switches? fileName packageName
unload ?switches? fileName packageName interp
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DESCRIPTION
This command tries to unload shared libraries previously loaded with load from the appli-
cation's address space. fileName is the name of the file containing the library file to
be unload; it must be the same as the filename provided to load for loading the library.
The packageName argument is the name of the package (as determined by or passed to load),
and is used to compute the name of the unload procedure; if not supplied, it is computed
from fileName in the same manner as load. The interp argument is the path name of the
interpreter from which to unload the package (see the interp manual entry for details); if
interp is omitted, it defaults to the interpreter in which the unload command was invoked.
If the initial arguments to unload start with - then they are treated as switches. The
following switches are currently supported:
-nocomplain
Suppresses all error messages. If this switch is given, unload will never report an
error.
-keeplibrary
This switch will prevent unload from issuing the operating system call that will
unload the library from the process.
-- Marks the end of switches. The argument following this one will be treated as a
fileName even if it starts with a -.
UNLOAD OPERATION
When a file containing a shared library is loaded through the load command, Tcl associates
two reference counts to the library file. The first counter shows how many times the
library has been loaded into normal (trusted) interpreters while the second describes how
many times the library has been loaded into safe interpreters. As a file containing a
shared library can be loaded only once by Tcl (with the first load call on the file),
these counters track how many interpreters use the library. Each subsequent call to load
after the first simply increments the proper reference count.
unload works in the opposite direction. As a first step, unload will check whether the
library is unloadable: an unloadable library exports a special unload procedure. The name
of the unload procedure is determined by packageName and whether or not the target inter-
preter is a safe one. For normal interpreters the name of the initialization procedure
will have the form pkg_Unload, where pkg is the same as packageName except that the first
letter is converted to upper case and all other letters are converted to lower case. For
example, if packageName is foo or FOo, the initialization procedure's name will be
Foo_Unload. If the target interpreter is a safe interpreter, then the name of the ini-
tialization procedure will be pkg_SafeUnload instead of pkg_Unload.
If unload determines that a library is not unloadable (or unload functionality has been
disabled during compilation), an error will be returned. If the library is unloadable,
then unload will call the unload procedure. If the unload procedure returns TCL_OK, unload
will proceed and decrease the proper reference count (depending on the target interpreter
type). When both reference counts have reached 0, the library will be detached from the
process.
UNLOAD HOOK PROTOTYPE
The unload procedure must match the following prototype:
typedef int Tcl_PackageUnloadProc(Tcl_Interp *interp, int flags);
The interp argument identifies the interpreter from which the library is to be unloaded.
The unload procedure must return TCL_OK or TCL_ERROR to indicate whether or not it com-
pleted successfully; in the event of an error it should set the interpreter's result to
point to an error message. In this case, the result of the unload command will be the
result returned by the unload procedure.
The flags argument can be either TCL_UNLOAD_DETACH_FROM_INTERPRETER or
TCL_UNLOAD_DETACH_FROM_PROCESS. In case the library will remain attached to the process
after the unload procedure returns (i.e. because the library is used by other inter-
preters), TCL_UNLOAD_DETACH_FROM_INTERPRETER will be defined. However, if the library is
used only by the target interpreter and the library will be detached from the application
as soon as the unload procedure returns, the flags argument will be set to
TCL_UNLOAD_DETACH_FROM_PROCESS.
NOTES
The unload command cannot unload libraries that are statically linked with the applica-
tion. If fileName is an empty string, then the packageName argument must be specified.
If packageName is omitted or specified as an empty string, Tcl tries to guess the name of
the package. This may be done differently on different platforms. The default guess,
which is used on most UNIX platforms, is to take the last element of fileName, strip off
the first three characters if they are lib, and use any following alphabetic and underline
characters as the module name. For example, the command unload libxyz4.2.so uses the mod-
ule name xyz and the command unload bin/last.so {} uses the module name last.
PORTABILITY ISSUES
Unix
Not all unix operating systems support library unloading. Under such an operating
system unload returns an error (unless -nocomplain has been specified).
BUGS
If the same file is loaded by different fileNames, it will be loaded into the process's
address space multiple times. The behavior of this varies from system to system (some
systems may detect the redundant loads, others may not). In case a library has been
silently detached by the operating system (and as a result Tcl thinks the library is still
loaded), it may be dangerous to use unload on such a library (as the library will be com-
pletely detached from the application while some interpreters will continue to use it).
EXAMPLE
If an unloadable module in the file foobar.dll had been loaded using the load command like
this (on Windows):
load c:/some/dir/foobar.dll
then it would be unloaded like this:
unload c:/some/dir/foobar.dll
This allows a C code module to be installed temporarily into a long-running Tcl program
and then removed again (either because it is no longer needed or because it is being
updated with a new version) without having to shut down the overall Tcl process.
SEE ALSO
info sharedlibextension, load(n), safe(n)
KEYWORDS
binary code, unloading, safe interpreter, shared library
Tcl 8.5 unload(n)
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