From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-01-31T12:10:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Net::HTTP Closes STDIN

On Jan 30, 2007, at 5:40 PM, gwtmp01@mac.com wrote:

>
> On Jan 30, 2007, at 6:17 PM, Eric Hodel wrote:
>> Since the thread in your example has completed there's no threads  
>> to switch to, so the main thread blocks waiting for a character  
>> (on a BSD-ish libc).  If there was a thread running, the main  
>> thread would remain blocked (as if it were blocked on getc(3)) and  
>> the other threads were running.
>
> But my point (and James' point) was that on my (his) platform it  
> *doesn't* block when it logically should.

Thank you.  I was beginning to think I was going crazy.  ;)

James Edward Gray II