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with_custodian_and_ward doesn't guarantee destructor ordering

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Descrição

The weakref trick used by `with_custodian_and_ward` relies on the nurse object being cleared before it calls the callback which drops the reference to the patient. This is mostly but not always true: when the cyclic garbage collector runs, it first makes all weakref callbacks before freeing the garbage (at least in Python 2.7.12). This can lead to the patient's destructor running before the nurse's, with dire consequences if the nurse references the patient in its destructor.

pybind11 uses the same weakref trick and suffers the same bug: https://github.com/pybind/pybind11/issues/856.

## Example code

keepalive.cpp:
```c++
#include
#include

namespace py = boost::python;

class B;

class A {
private:
B &b;
public:
A(B &b) : b(b) {}
~A() { std::cerr << "In A::~A()\n"; }
};

class B {
public:
~B() { std::cerr << "In B::~B()\n"; }
};

BOOST_PYTHON_MODULE(keepalive) {
py::class_("A", py::init()[py::with_custodian_and_ward<1, 2>()]);
py::class_("B");
}
```

test.py:
```python
#!/usr/bin/env python
from keepalive import A, B

lst = [A(B())]
lst.append(lst)
del lst
```

Output:
```
In B::~B()
In A::~A()
```

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Direção de pesquisa

Start with the reproducer in keepalive.cpp and test.py, then run it under the affected garbage-collection scenario described in the issue. Trace with_custodian_and_ward's weakref callback and destructor behavior; done means the patient's lifetime cannot end before the nurse when cyclic garbage collection occurs.

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Avaliação

Stack de tecnologia
cpp, python
Domínio
api, backend
Tipo de issue
Bug
Dificuldade
5/5
Tempo estimado
Mais de uma semana
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Estagnada
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Razoavelmente clara
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30/100

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