From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2006-12-18T11:19:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Question regarding threads and I/O

Michael W. Ryder wrote:
> Maybe I am missing something here but it doesn't seem to work for me.  I 
> have the following simple program:
> 
>   require 'timeout'
>   foo = nil
>   status = Timeout::timeout(5) {
>     foo = gets()
>   }
>   puts (foo)
> 
> If I enter something, say 123, then the program displays the 123 as 
> expected.  If I just wait it sits there until I enter something which is 
> not what I want.  I want the input to terminate and display that foo is 
> 'nil'.  For some reason testing the value of status shows that it is the 
> same as the input, but this may not be relevant to the problem.

That's a problem with the combination of the msvc-based ruby on windows 
and gets and threads (Timeout uses a thread). There was a discussion in 
the ruby-talk list with subject "Thread and sleep" a few days ago.

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