[ruby-core:25929] Re: Ruby 1.8.6-p383 hangs in dln_load on Snow Leopard

On Oct 3, 2009, at 4:26 PM, Timothy Hunter wrote:

> An RMagick user reports that Ruby 1.8.6 hangs when requiring RMagick.

I'm that user and RMagick isn't the only Ruby extension affected.  A  
plist extension shipped with TextMate shows the same behavior.  This  
extension is a trivial wrapper over a framework provided in the OS.   
These are the only two extensions I've noticed are affected, so far.

If you have TextMate installed on Snow Leopard, it's super easy to  
trigger this hang:

   $ ruby -r /Applications/TextMate.app/Contents/SharedSupport/Support/ 
lib/osx/plist -e1

It's also worth nothing that when Tim says the process hangs, he means  
it. It cannot be interrupted and I have to kill -9 the process to get  
it to stop.

James Edward Gray II