From: Clemens Wyss <wys@...>
Date: 2001-08-08T21:57:38+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19377] preemption

Looks like Ruby (ruby 1.7.1 (2001-08-06) [i686-cygwin]) does not preemt
the following long-running-thread: 

longrunThread = Thread.new {
  while true do 
    print "."
    # sleep .1
  end
}
print "the script won't get here!"

UNLESS I put a "sleep" into the while-loop!

Note: I do not have this behavior neither under "ruby 1.6.3 (2001-03-19)
[i386-cygwin]", nor under "Ruby 1.7.0 (2001-04-02) [i586-linux]". 

A new (cygwin) bug?
Clemens