Add a way to cleanly shut down the library (#578)

This change adds the Shutdown() method, so that the library can be
cleanly shut down. This helps significanly reduce the amount of noise in
the leak detector.

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/handles.go b/handles.go
index d27d3c3..c0d4b3c 100644
--- a/handles.go
+++ b/handles.go
@@ -43,6 +43,16 @@ func (v *HandleList) Untrack(handle unsafe.Pointer) {
 	v.Unlock()
 }
 
+// Clear stops tracking all the managed pointers.
+func (v *HandleList) Clear() {
+	v.Lock()
+	for handle := range v.handles {
+		delete(v.handles, handle)
+		C.free(handle)
+	}
+	v.Unlock()
+}
+
 // Get retrieves the pointer from the given handle
 func (v *HandleList) Get(handle unsafe.Pointer) interface{} {
 	v.RLock()