From: Nate Smith <NSMITH5@...>
Date: 2006-03-21T10:11:42+09:00
Subject: Keeping a thread alive

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to keep a thread alive after exiting a method. The pseudo- 
code is as follows:

class A
	
	def start
		@mainThread = Thread.new {
			oneThread = Thread.new {
				# do some stuff
			}
			twoThread = Thread.new {
				# do some other stuff
			}
			oneThread.join
			twoThread.join
		}
	end
end

aObject = A.new
aObject.start


The problem is that since there is no :join call on @mainThread, it  
is killed (and hence oneThread, and twoThread as well) once control  
ends in :start. This is perfectly valid, of course, but I would like  
@mainThread to stay alive after control in :start ends. Is there any  
way to do this? Thanks

Nate