From: Ville Mattila <mulperi@...>
Date: 2005-01-24T17:11:00+09:00
Subject: Re: TCPSocket.new blocks other threads

"martinus" <martin.ankerl@gmail.com> writes:

> This is a serious problem! Try this code without an internet
> connection:
>
> Thread.new {
> sleep 1
> TCPSocket.new("xxx.nonexisting.xxx", 1234)
> }
>
> loop {
> puts "."
> sleep 0.25
> }
>
> This should continuously print a ".", but after 1 second this blocks
> Ruby completely.
>
Works ok with
 ruby -v
 ruby 1.8.2 (2005-01-23) [sparc-solaris2.8]

and
 
ruby -v
ruby 1.8.2 (2004-07-29) [i386-mswin32]

So this might be problem on your OS.

 - Ville