From: "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2007-07-21T12:41:44+09:00
Subject: Re: [BUG] threads and heavy io on osx and linux


On Jul 20, 2007, at 7:40 PM, brabuhr@gmail.com wrote:

>
> I've tried running the program under ptrace.  It appears that when the
> original program runs properly each pipe read()s like:
>    "424242..."
>    "424242..."
>    ...
>    "424242..."
>    "\n"
>    ""
>    close()
>
> When the program hangs, at least one pipe read()s like:
>    "424242..."
>    "424242..."
>    ...
>    "424242..."
>    "\n"
>    select() <- hung
>

right - ruby uses select under the hood for thread scheduling but  
i've got no time to dig into this further for a few weeks...

i guess i should follow a bug report...

thanks everyone.

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