From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...17n.org>
Date: 2006-02-19T11:22:48+09:00
Subject: Re: DRb hanging/blocking on access to /proc filesystem

In article <1140312204.751553.136640@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
  "David Felstead" <david.felstead@gmail.com> writes:

> The following code causes ruby to hang on Linux CentOS 4 (tested on
> 1.8.2, 1.8.3, 1.8.4 and 1.9 HEAD as of last night):

> # This call causes the program to hang
> File.read('/proc/loadavg')

It seems like the problem before Linux 2.6.13.
See [ruby-talk:155745].
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Tanaka Akira