From: Francis Cianfrocca <garbagecat10@...>
Date: 2006-10-23T21:26:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Trouble using puts and getc in different threads

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On 10/23/06, Mark <okmooi@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I was trying to do a little exercise: Display series of numbers
> (1,2,3,4, 5....etc) in an infinite loop. The program should quit if
> someone hits a specific key (ENTER in my case as the escape key
> requires ugly solutions for non-buffered input). Sounds simple, right?
> Not. I thought this should work:



Try it on a Unix-like system. It will work. We've had several discussions
here about an bad interaction between Ruby threads and system I/O on
Windows, but I'm not sure anyone has gotten to the bottom of it.

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