From: Bill Kelly Date: 2005-04-10T13:32:25+09:00 Subject: Re: Welcome to our (ruby-talk ML) You are added automatically From: "Richard Cole" > > In modern systems there are all sorts of system resources that need to > be accounted for and so this idiom often gets resued. I haven't looked > into how multithreading works in ruby yet, but this idiom would also > work quite nicely for mutexes and condition variables I imagine. Indeed, @mutex.synchronize { do; stuff; here } Regards, Bill