Hi,
>> However, the error disappears if "GC.start" is inserted just above
>> XML::Document.file(...).
>
> Right. This is another Ruby GC issue. If you don't call GC.start, then
> all the documents that you have created remain open. I assume this causes
> the OS to eventually run out of file handles, thus resulting in the error
> (which is being raised by libxml not Ruby).
>
> By calling GC.start, the documents are freed and the file handles are
> released.
>
> So I don't see this as a bug in the libxml bindings.
Maybe you are right, but if I change XML::Document.file("test.xml")
to File.open("test.xml"), I won't run out of file handles.
I wonder what makes the difference...
And if I remember correctly, even the original test code with
libxml-ruby 3.8 did not run out of file handles on 32bit intel machines
either - the reported segfault only affected the amd64 (and maybe
other) architecture.
Masashi
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