From: MenTaLguY <mental@...>
Date: 2007-09-12T01:59:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Thread deadlock problem

On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 12:35:08 +0900, wimxa@yahoo.com wrote:

> ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [i386-mswin32]
> 
> Also, uncommenting a sleep from above makes the deadlocks disappear
> and everything works rather fine - is this just a matter of tweaking
> the probability? It ran for quite a long time (several minutes),
> that's why I doubt this, but hey

I think you at least need a newer patchlevel of 1.8.6; IIRC, there are
bugs in the mutex implementation that shipped with 1.8.6p0.

-mental