You could also experiment with the approach that uses your initial patch, and: 1) moves the close to `FileStateHandler` 2) ensures that no user callbacks are processed after the `File` object is deleted --- Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/xrootd/xrootd/issues/289#issuecomment-146240422 ######################################################################## Use REPLY-ALL to reply to list To unsubscribe from the XROOTD-DEV list, click the following link: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=XROOTD-DEV&A=1