From: Heesob Park <phasis@...>
Date: 2006-09-05T14:08:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Trying to work with Threads

Hi,

|MKSM| wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I was doing a quick test with Threads in my Win32 box and something
> strange occured. The point here is to input text without interrupting
> the counter. I plan to use a similar method to display text incoming
> from a server while being able to send messages and such. A couple of
> people told me that it works ok on *nix, but I can't get it to work
> here.
> 
> The code:
> 
> t1 = Thread.new {
> 	x=0
> 	loop do
> 		puts x
> 		x+=1
> 		sleep(1)
> 	end
> }
> 
> t2 = Thread.new {
> 	loop do
> 		y = gets.chomp
> 		puts y
> 	end
> }
> 
> 
> t1.join
> t2.join
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Ricardo Amorim

This is a well-known win32 bug.
Though I had tried to fix the bug about 3 years ago, it was not 
accepted.
Refer to 
http://groups.google.co.kr/group/comp.lang.ruby/tree/browse_frm/thread/71b7702b046d0a31/ 
for more detail.

Regards,

Park Heesob


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