From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2006-06-21T06:35:28+09:00
Subject: Re: C Threads and Ruby

Simon Kr�ger wrote:
> Francis Cianfrocca schrieb:
>>>>> I typically use a pipe for this kind of synchronization.
>> Me too. Crude but it works.
> 
> Well, b*****it:
> (sorry, no offense intended...)
> 
> -------------------------------
> $stdout.sync = true
> rd, wr = IO.pipe
> 
> Thread.new do
>   loop do
>     puts 'foo!'

Might help:

      wr.puts 'foo!'

>     sleep 0.5
>   end
> end
> 
> sleep 2
> puts(rd.gets)
> -------------------------------
> 
> ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i386-mswin32]
> gives me 4 foo!s and waits for the rest of eternity.
> So blocking on a pipe isn't an option for platform independent code.
> (or am I doing something wrong, please say I'm doing something wrong!)
> 
> cheers
> 
> Simon


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