From: David Vallner <david@...>
Date: 2006-02-10T22:55:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Thread#stop

Dňa Piatok 10 Február 2006 05:10 Joel VanderWerf napísal:
> Any ideas? If Thread#stop is a bad idea, what is the right idea in this
> case?

Letting threads directly play tricks on each other is more of a Q'n'D hack 
than a real parallelism solution. What you're looking for sounds like a latch 
construct that the user process opens and closes for the other threads. Brief 
googling indicates you could use something called a read-write mutex / lock.

Maybe there's a ruby implementation out there already, if not, it should be 
doable via Mutexes and Semaphores. (Do we have Semaphores in the core or 
stdlib?)

David Vallner