From: joost baaij <joost@...>
Date: 2006-10-21T16:13:10+09:00
Subject: Re: threaded Socket call blocks main thread


Op 21-okt-2006, om 8:10 heeft Paul Lutus het volgende geschreven:

> Obviously when you join the thread, it can block the main thread.  
> But in my
> experience with Ruby threads, if you don't join the thread, it  
> dies. Which
> leads a reasonable person to ask "what's the point of the threads?"

It seems very limited then. Just an easy way to parallelize (sp?)  
*some* tasks.

Foregoing threads, is there a way to continue a script that's waiting  
for a blocked Socket.gethostbyname call? Afaik only actual files can  
be opened non-blocking, right?


Thanks.