From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-06-28T05:50:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Command in backticks hangs? (OS X, 1.8.6-p36)

On Jun 27, 2007, at 3:43 PM, Tim Hunter wrote:

> James Edward Gray II wrote:
>> On Jun 26, 2007, at 5:40 PM, Tim Hunter wrote:
>>
>>> The script works normally now. I suppose I should get energetic  
>>> and work on a small reproduction of the problem.
>>
>> If anyone has a minimal script that shows this error, please share  
>> it.  I've been in contact with Apple and Leopard is suppose to  
>> ship with Ruby 1.8.6-p36 which is where I found the issue.  They  
>> are willing to patch it though, if we can show the problem.   
>> Unfortunately, both scripts I ran into it with are very non-trivial.
>>
>> James Edward Gray II
>>
> Oh, great. I re-installed 1.8.6-p36 and the script runs normally now.
>
> Sigh. Sometimes I hate software.

I'm pretty sure the issue is related to threading.  It would always  
show up for me after I had been fetching Web pages or sending some  
email using the networking libraries.

James Edward Gray II