From: "nikolai.weibull@..." <nikolai.weibull@...>
Date: 2007-08-20T16:09:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Won't WIN32OLE_EVENT.new leak?

On Aug 17, 3:35 pm, Masaki Suketa <masaki.suk...@nifty.ne.jp> wrote:
> Hello,
> In message "Won't WIN32OLE_EVENT.new leak?"
>     on 07/08/16, "nikolai.weib...@gmail.com" <nikolai.weib...@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > Won't WIN32OLE_EVENT.new leak?  A WIN32OLE object will sooner or later
> > be freed (right?), when garbage collection kicks in.  But a
> > WIN32OLE_EVENT object will never be freed, as it is kept in a global
> > array and is never removed from that array.
>
> WIN32OLE_EVENT object is freed when ruby process terminated.
> And while ruby process running WIN32OLE_EVENT object is not freed.
>
> Because WIN32OLE_EVENT object should not be freed until
> WIN32OLE object is freed.

Can't the WIN32OLE_EVENT object be linked to the WIN32OLE object so
that when the WIN32OLE object is freed, we make sure WIN32OLE_EVENT is
freed as well?

  nikolai