From: MenTaLguY <mental@...>
Date: 2007-11-16T01:28:08+09:00
Subject: Re: state of threads in 1.9

On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 22:38:05 +0900, Sylvain Joyeux <sylvain.joyeux@m4x.org> wrote:
> Would not it be possible to release the global lock manually in C
> extensions ?

> I guess that implementation of blocking calls like
> Mutex#lock, #select and such must release the global lock before calling
> the blocking functions ?

There is rb_thread_blocking_region()...

-mental