From: Guillaume Marcais <guslist@...>
Date: 2005-05-27T01:37:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Locks with IO and Thread

On Fri, 2005-05-27 at 00:56 +0900, Nicolas Olivier wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I consider the following piece of code, supposed to run under a GNU/Linux system.
> The /proc/loadavg is a single line file.

That's probably your issue:
http://www.ruby-talk.org/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/3803

Guillaume.