From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2007-08-29T19:16:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Accessing ruby 1.9 interpreter from other threads

Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> At Tue, 28 Aug 2007 19:33:02 +0900,
> Bill Kelly wrote in [ruby-talk:266532]:
>> I seem to recall hearing 1.9 is using native threads now.
>>
>> If so, does that mean it's now safe for multiple OS threads
>> to call into the 1.9 ruby interpreter, and eval or execute
>> ruby code?  (I'm assuming some sort of interpreter lock would
>> need to be grabbed.)
> 
> And to bind calling native thread a ruby thread.  But still not
> provided now.

A similar mechanism is used in JRuby to "adopt" incoming Java threads as 
Ruby threads, allowing them to participate in thread events like kill 
and raise. But there's nothing explicit about it; threads that haven't 
been adopted are adopted automatically. Can't this be done automatically?

- Charlie