From: "Kroeger, Simon (ext)" <simon.kroeger.ext@...>
Date: 2006-06-20T19:27:43+09:00
Subject: C Threads and Ruby

Hi,

i know the ruby interpreter isn't thread safe and 
it's not a good idea to call rb_* functions from more 
than one thread.

Nevertheless, is there a way to signal the interpreter
that i would like him to call one of my functions in a
c extension? (from another thread)

The only way i figured out so far would be to create a
pipe, let a ruby thread sleep on the fd and put a byte
in the queue from c the wake the thread. (good, bad, ugly?)

cheers

Simon