From: Laurent Julliard <Laurent.Julliard@...>
Date: 2004-12-18T03:17:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Running DRb in the main thread?

Eric Hodel wrote:
> On 17 Dec 2004, at 09:58, Laurent Julliard wrote:
> 
>> I was wondering if there are some low level API that I can use in Drb 
>> to make it run as the equivalent of an "event loop" in the main thread 
>> of a program rather than having DRb starting its own thread as it does 
>>  when start_service is invoked.
>>
>> The reason for this is that I need to run a remote program without 
>> disturbing its original list of threads. So running "synchronously" in 
>> the main thread would be ok.
>>
>> Advices and ideas are welcome
> 
> 
> How about using ThreadGroup to organize your threads?

It doesn't solve my problem because what I want is to avoid disturbing 
the scheduling of the original threads.

I looked at the code and it looks like the only way I can do this is 
by rewriting the main_loop method of drb/drb.rb in my own program.

Laurent