From: Joel VanderWerf Date: 2005-08-26T04:14:56+09:00 Subject: Re: [ANN] EventLoop 0.0.20050825.1600 Tanaka Akira wrote: > In article <430DFCD4.6000405@path.berkeley.edu>, > Joel VanderWerf writes: > > >>I *love* ruby threads. Still, I wish ruby's thread scheduler would >>handle more types of blocking than select can handle, such as waiting >>for a file lock. > > > File#flock works well since Ruby 1.8.2. It blocks only the calling > thread. It doesn't block other threads. Wow! Thanks. -- vjoel : Joel VanderWerf : path berkeley edu : 510 665 3407