From: Danny van Bruggen <danny@...>
Date: 2001-04-06T22:50:28+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:13532] 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?
> 
>  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.

I'm avoiding everything pthread, since Ruby has its own threads. However,
SDL insists on using a pthread for event handling on systems that support
this (like Linux) - I also asked the SDL list if that can be avoided, but
maybe it's Ruby that's causing the problem?

Bye!