From: Neil Spring <nspring@...>
Date: 2004-05-20T07:47:19+09:00
Subject: threads, Hash#delete_if, and ruby segfaults.

should the following code cause the ruby interpreter to segfault?  If 
so, resolv.rb should have a mutex guard @senders.  If not, st_foreach 
should avoid the race when independent threads delete adjacent elements 
from the same linked list.

#!/usr/bin/ruby

desired_length = 10000

hash = Hash.new
threads = (0..4).map { |i|
   Thread.new {
     while true
       hash.delete_if { |k,v| Kernel.rand > 0.5 }
       while hash.length < desired_length
         hash[Kernel.rand(desired_length * 10)] = 12
       end
     end
   }
}

(I submitted a really clunky version of this as ruby bug 1326 with not 
nearly so simple a test case, but can't figure out how to follow up to 
the message).

thanks,
-neil