From: Ville Mattila <mulperi@...>
Date: 2005-01-24T20:05:52+09:00
Subject: Re: TCPSocket.new blocks other threads

"christoph.heindl@gmail.com" <christoph.heindl@gmail.com> writes:

> thanks for your reply.
> however, as i pointed out in my initial post, the problem only occurs
> on windows. I searched for the problem for quite a while and it seems
> that ruby uses Winsock on Windows (instead of Winsock2). Somehow ruby's
> scheduler seems not to be able to schedule other threads during a
> TCPSocket connection attempt. I think this is not a ruby problem in
> general, but has todo with ruby + winsock.
> Maybe there are any patches around?

Hello, works fine with me (windows 2000 + SP4 and all security patches)
....

> type foo.rb
require "socket"
Thread.abort_on_exception= true

Thread.new {
sleep 1
begin
TCPSocket.new("xxx.nonexisting.xxx", 1234)
rescue
end
    puts "done"
}

loop {
    puts "."
    sleep 0.25
}

c:\data\ruby\bin\ruby -v foo.rb
ruby 1.8.2 (2005-01-19) [i386-mswin32]
..
..
..
..
done
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
..
foo.rb:16:in `sleep': Interrupt
        from foo.rb:16
        from foo.rb:14:in `loop'
        from foo.rb:14

 - Ville