From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2009-06-18T22:33:44+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:23918] Re: Broken finalizers in ruby 1.8

Hi,

At Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:30:35 +0900,
Stanislav Sedov wrote in [ruby-core:23913]:
> The problem can be verified using the following simple snipplet:
> 
> % obj = "Test"
> % handler = Proc.new { puts "Finalized!" }
> % ObjectSpace.define_finalizer(obj, handler)

That handler contains the reference to obj, so it should not be
called.

> If you run this code in ruby 1.8.7 before r21435 it prints 'Finalized!'.

It's a bug.

-- 
Nobu Nakada