From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Date: 2001-02-07T15:13:40+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:10481] Re: threads and resolving names Hi, In message "[ruby-talk:10477] threads and resolving names" on 01/02/07, "Joseph McDonald" writes: |I thought if I created a bunch of threads that I could get around |the problem and would only hang when all threads (100) are hung. |But that doesn't seem to be the case. Do I have my threading |wrong? Sorry, resolving by gethostbyname(3) etc block whole process. It's a pity of user level thread. matz.