Lennart Poettering
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sd_event_prepare() invokes callbacks that might drop the last user ref on our event loop. Let's make sure we keep an explicit ref around it, so that we won't end up with an invalid pointer. Similar in sd_event_run(). Basically, any function that is publically callable that might end up invoking callbacks should ref the relevant objects to be protected against callbacks destroying these objects while we still want to access them. We did this correctly in sd_event_dispatch() and sd_event_loop(), but these are not the only ones which are callable from the outside.
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