From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2001-04-06T22:24:41+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:13531] Re: Wrapping library that uses pthread

>>>>> "D" == Danny van Bruggen <danny@froukepc.dhs.org> writes:

D> I'm writing a Ruby interface for SDL, but I can't go on right now because
D> SDL uses pthreads. When I run a Ruby-script on a platform with pthread
D> support, it will wait forever with a blocking thread. Is anything known
D> about Ruby that might cause this?

 Well, it depend how you use it.

 If you try to use explicitely pthread in your extension, by a call to
 pthread_create() or SDL_CreateThread, you'll have a problem otherwise it
 can work.

 This mean that probably you can make work all examples in the directory
SDL-1.2.0/test, except for testhread.c, testlock.c, testsem.c, testerror.c
and torturethread.c if you use the SDL interface for the threads.


Guy Decoux