From: MenTaLguY <mental@...>
Date: 2007-05-31T03:30:05+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] fastthread 1.0

On Wed, 30 May 2007 20:42:29 +0900, "Han Holl" <han.holl@gmail.com> wrote:
> I wonder what those serious bugs might be.

Shortly, the waitlist structures could become corrupted.

> I'm planning to install CentOS5 on some sixty machines. CentOS5 came
> with a ruby-1.8.5 that had some nasty bugs, so I rebuild FC7
> ruby-1.8.6-2 which has in ext/thread:

I'm not sure what version that corresponds to offhand.  This version of thread.c should be safe:

  http://svn.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/viewvc.cgi/branches/ruby_1_8/ext/thread/thread.c?revision=12278

-mental