From: David Ross <drossruby@...>
Date: 2004-09-09T22:58:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Threads, serial ports and Linux don't mix

Most likely a bug, you should email matz. He would
know whats wrong(*if he wrote the serial code). 


Its probably some silly typo or coding error. Might be
improper handling. I personally havent looked at that
part of the ruby code yet. I might as well start
reading that area :)

--David Ross

--- Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com> wrote:

> I raised an issue on ruby-talk which relates to the
> core engine, but nobody
> commented on it there:
> 
>
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/111331
>
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/111330
> 
> In summary: trying to write data to a serial port
> hangs if you do it within
> a 'Thread.new' block, but works otherwise. It
> happens under Linux (RH9.0,
> kernel 2.4.20-8), but not FreeBSD 5.2.1-RELEASE.
> There is sample code to
> reproduce the problem at the above links.
> 
> This applies to both Ruby-1.8.1 and
> Ruby-1.8.2-preview2. Does anyone have an
> explanation of the problem, and/or whether a
> workaround is possible?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Brian Candler.
> 
> 



		
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