Hi

Immediately is relative and especially inside the PC.
Something else might be happening by this relative
time - maybe its best to avoid depending on that
and avoid the situation that mkaes u want to do this
in the first place ?

arun
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From: "Aashwina" <ashwina_mSRASYS.CO.IN>
To: <DCOMDISCUSS.MICROSOFT.COM>
Sent: Monday, March 11, 2002 11:35 AM
Subject: CoFreeUnusedLibraries - Forcing an unload!!

> Hi ,
>
> The documentation says that COM supplies functions to reclaim memory held
by
> DLLs containing components. The most commonly used function is
> CoFreeUnusedLibraries <cmf_a2c_3p2r.asp>. CoFreeUnusedLibraries does not
> immediately release DLLs that have no active object. There is a 10-minute
> delay for multithreaded apartments (MTAs) and neutral apartments (NAs).
For
> single-threaded apartments (STAs), there is no delay.
> The 10-minute delay for CoFreeUnusedLibraries is to avoid multithread race
> conditions caused by unloading a component DLL. This default delay may be
> too long for many applications.
> We have an MTA component that needs to be unloaded immediately? Is there a
> way we can get this working in Windows 2000? Windows XP supports
> CoFreeUnusedLibrariesEx(..) wherein if the delay is set to 0, DLL can be
> unloaded immediately but this is not available in W2K!
> Thanks in advance,
> Aashwina
>
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