From: Jonathan Feinberg <jdf@...>
Date: 2001-03-03T16:40:02+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:11927] Re: problem with threads and fastcgi

Brad Hilton <bhilton@vpop.net> writes:

> FCGI.each do |fcgi|
>   Thread.new(fcgi) { |f|
[snip]
>    }
> end

You've created a thread, but you do not wait for it to finish what it
is doing.  In general, the pattern for starting one or mroe threads
and allowing them to finish is

  threads = []
  while some_condition
     threads << Thread.new {

     }
  end
  threads.each { |t| t.join }

If you do not join your threads they will be terminated with extreme
prejudice when the main thread exits.

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