From: William Morgan <wmorgan-ruby-talk@...>
Date: 2005-02-15T08:10:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Threading in Windows

Excerpts from David Corbin's mail of 14 Feb 2005 (EST):
> > I'd be surprised if Ruby allowed more than one thread to do a
> > system() call at a time, 
> 
> Well, I could understand that (thought it would be bad).  But I'm sure
> that the three threads are running three process in parallel.

Oh. Cool!

> And what's more, none of the other threads will start until all the
> one of the first three finishes.  So, it's not just a limit of 3
> external processes (btw, looking at the source code, it looks like a
> limit of 255 external processes).

Then I don't know. There are some Windows-specific and Thread-specific
blocking issues that I know of, but none of them have this behavior by
themselves.

-- 
William <wmorgan-ruby-talk@masanjin.net>