From: Lionel Thiry <lthiryidontwantspam@...>
Date: 2004-12-05T01:02:39+09:00
Subject: Re: [nuby] about ruby multithreading

> No, system does not block other ruby threads.
Thanks for the remark... I was a bit confused about my interpretation of 
the answer, and I could not test system("sleep 10000") on my windows2k 
to see how it works.

> 
> $ cat x.rb
> STDOUT.sync = true
I didn't know that stuff!
It's interesting, where is that documented?

> 
> Thread.new {
>   loop do
>     sleep 1
>     puts Time.now
>   end
> }
> 
> system("sleep 10")
> 
> $ ruby -v x.rb
> ruby 1.8.2 (2004-11-06) [powerpc-darwin7.6.0]
> Fri Dec 03 09:57:47 PST 2004
> Fri Dec 03 09:57:48 PST 2004
> Fri Dec 03 09:57:49 PST 2004
> Fri Dec 03 09:57:50 PST 2004
> Fri Dec 03 09:57:51 PST 2004
> Fri Dec 03 09:57:52 PST 2004
> Fri Dec 03 09:57:53 PST 2004
> Fri Dec 03 09:57:54 PST 2004
> Fri Dec 03 09:57:55 PST 2004
> $
Thanks for the help,
Lionel Thiry