Back to swig malloc for the message queue

asn1_value_editor/gui.py

@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ import logging
 import argparse
 import time
 from functools import partial
-from ctypes import CDLL, c_void_p
+from ctypes import CDLL
 
 log = logging.getLogger(__name__)
 terminal_formatter = logging.Formatter(
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ except ImportError:
     datamodel = None
 
 try:
-    from PythonController import(OpenMsgQueueForReading,
+    from PythonController import(OpenMsgQueueForReading, new_byte_SWIG_PTR,
                 GetMsgQueueBufferSize, DV, RetrieveMessageFromQueue)
     python_controller = True
 except ImportError:
@@ -93,9 +93,6 @@ class MsgQ_Poller(QThread):
         self.Qname = "{uid}_{fvname}_PI_queue".format(uid=str(os.geteuid()),
                                                     fvname=datamodel.FVname)
         self.log.info('msQ name= ' + self.Qname)
-        self.libc = CDLL('libc.so.6')
-        self.malloc = self.libc.malloc
-        self.malloc.restype = c_void_p
 
     def run(self):
         self.log.debug('Starting msgQ polling thread')
@@ -111,7 +108,7 @@ class MsgQ_Poller(QThread):
                     "Retrying...".format(Qname=self.Qname))
             time.sleep(1)
         bufferSize = GetMsgQueueBufferSize(self._msgQueue)
-        pDataFromMQ = self.malloc(bufferSize) # DV.new_byte_SWIG_PTR(bufferSize)
+        pDataFromMQ = new_byte_SWIG_PTR(bufferSize)
         while not self._bDie:
             messageReceivedType = RetrieveMessageFromQueue(
                                        self._msgQueue, bufferSize, pDataFromMQ)