From: Matt Armstrong <matt@...>
Date: 2001-09-28T00:32:49+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:21773] Re: opening a named pipe?

In article <20010927154414.00ea6eca.mike@lepton.fr>, Michael Witrant wrote:
> I'm dealing with nearly the same issue:
> In the main thread of my script, I would like a loop to open and read
> a named pipe forever. It starts some new threads to handle commands
> received from the pipe.  But all other threads stop running when the
> main thread is opening the pipe for reading.<snip>

In Ruby, all threads are in the same unix process.  If one thread blocks
on a unix system call (such as doing a blocking read from a pipe), the
whole process is blocked and no Ruby threads run.


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matt