From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-07-06T08:34:04+09:00
Subject: Re: thread mystery

On Wed, 5 Jul 2006, Joel VanderWerf wrote:

> ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
>> i seem to always end up using to Queue with threads these days anyhow - so 
>> i
>> guess this is fine...
>
> Yep. Thread w/o Queue for me would be like Car w/o Gas. Or maybe Car w/ 
> $5/gallon gas.
>
>> i suppose it makes sense that one shouldn't create threads from inside a 
>> sync
>> block since it uses Thread.critical inside and, therefore, must assume only
>> only thread is running at times.  i wonder if there is a pattern for safely
>> creating threads from within another taking into account
>> Thread.critical=true...
>
> In this case, though, Thread.critical==false while in the notify block, so it 
> can't be causing this problem, right?

yes, it seems so.  still, you were definitely on to something - if no threads
are created it works...

hmm.  i'll have to read sync.rb a bit more - it's thick.

-a
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