From: homer nile <homernile@...>
Date: 2004-11-02T09:03:54+09:00
Subject: at_exit, trap sigint, and sleep. no good in 1.8, ok in 1.6

Any ideas about why the following code hangs in 1.8
(under WinXP) but works fine in 1.6.  (This is a major
simplification of some Ctrl-C handling from a larger
project.  I don't just have a thing against cats.) 
The run results are below.  I've been told on
ruby_talk that this works fine on 1.8 on Linux.

Thanks.
(I apologize if this is not suitable for ruby_core. 
Since it works differently on Windows and Linux, I
decided to take a chance that it would be relevant to
the implementation gurus.)


----- dog.rb  -------------------------------------

at_exit {
	puts "Dog: at_exit"
	
	trap("SIGINT") {
		puts "Dog: killing cat..."
		Cat.die
		puts "Dog: cat whacked."
	}
	
	Cat.run
	puts "Dog: cat runs no more."
}

----- cat.rb  -------------------------------------

require "dog"

module Cat
	def Cat.run
		@@done = false
		until @@done
			puts "Cat: yawn"
			sleep(2)
		end
		puts "Cat: eehhkk."
	end
	
	def Cat.die
		@@done = true
		puts "Cat: eeeiiiiyyyeee!"
	end
end

----- results  ------------------------------------

> \ruby-1.6.8\bin\ruby.exe -v cat.rb
ruby 1.6.8 (2002-12-24) [i586-mswin32]
Dog: at_exit
Cat: yawn
Cat: yawn
[I press Ctrl+c]
Dog: killing cat...
Cat: eeeiiiiyyyeee!
Dog: cat whacked.
Cat: eehhkk.
Dog: cat runs no more.


> \ruby-1.8.2\bin\ruby.exe -v cat.rb
ruby 1.8.2 (2004-07-29) [i386-mswin32]
Dog: at_exit
Cat: yawn
Cat: yawn
Cat: yawn
[I press Ctrl+c]
Dog: killing cat...
Cat: eeeiiiiyyyeee!
Dog: cat whacked.

[and here we stay forever.]







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