[R-sig-Geo] Writing a tif using rgdal

Ari Jolma ari.jolma at tkk.fi
Wed Feb 8 20:57:55 CET 2006


Tim Keitt kirjoitti:
> On Tue, 2006-02-07 at 22:25 +0100, Roger Bivand wrote:
>   
>> No trouble - I think this hits me when I'm hurrying and I re-use a 
>> not-closed handle, filling it with another handle. I can't replicate now.
>>     
>
> Hmmm... I just realized that creating a raster band object and then
> closing the associated dataset object might lead to all sorts of
> fireworks. We may need some reference counting to avoid dereferencing
> free'd pointers.
>   

I guess the fireworks is caused by gdal? This was discussed at length on 
the gdal-dev list in the fall. There is no easy way the fix this. 
Currently the best solution is to be careful with things like this.

Ari Jolma

> THK
>
>   


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