Pending tasks in a message loop should be deleted before shutting down Blink

base/message_loop/message_loop.h

 // Copyright 2013 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
 // found in the LICENSE file.
 
 #ifndef BASE_MESSAGE_LOOP_MESSAGE_LOOP_H_
 #define BASE_MESSAGE_LOOP_MESSAGE_LOOP_H_
 
 #include <queue>
 #include <string>
 
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    protected:
     virtual ~TaskObserver();
   };
 
   // These functions can only be called on the same thread that |this| is
   // running on.
   void AddTaskObserver(TaskObserver* task_observer);
   void RemoveTaskObserver(TaskObserver* task_observer);
 
+  // Flushes all pending tasks in this message loop.

[jamesr, 2014/09/24 04:57:26]

i really think if we need to patch base/ for this then we're doing something
wrong

+  void FlushPendingTasks();
+
 #if defined(OS_WIN)
   void set_os_modal_loop(bool os_modal_loop) {
     os_modal_loop_ = os_modal_loop;
   }
 
   bool os_modal_loop() const {
     return os_modal_loop_;
   }
 #endif  // OS_WIN
 
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 // Do not add any member variables to MessageLoopForIO!  This is important b/c
 // MessageLoopForIO is often allocated via MessageLoop(TYPE_IO).  Any extra
 // data that you need should be stored on the MessageLoop's pump_ instance.
 COMPILE_ASSERT(sizeof(MessageLoop) == sizeof(MessageLoopForIO),
                MessageLoopForIO_should_not_have_extra_member_variables);
 
 }  // namespace base
 
 #endif  // BASE_MESSAGE_LOOP_MESSAGE_LOOP_H_