From: Issac <issac@...>
Date: 2001-12-09T21:23:32+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:28022] Re: mutex problem

OK, it works on my Linux box but not my Windows 2000 box.  
Maybe the Ruby threads implementation is slightly broken in Windows.



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Leo Laursen" <1858323m001@mail1.stofanet.dk>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 4:48 AM
Subject: [ruby-talk:28018] Re: mutex problem


> Den  9-12 2001 kl. 11:44:11 +0900, skrev Issac:
> 
> > As a Ruby newbie, I've been excitedly plowing through the Thomas/Hunt book.
> 
> me too :-)
> 
> > But now I'm stuck.  On pp. 118-119 there's a piece of code that
> > doesn't seem to work:
> 
> -----cut-----
> 
> > When I run this on ruby 1.6.5 (2001-09-19) [i386-cygwin] from the cygwin
> > command line, it hangs.  It also hangs when I run it in RubyWin 0.0.3.8
> > with the same version of ruby.
> 
> > Can anyone help?
> 
> No, but it works for me.
> count1 = 18473
> count2 = 18473
> difference = 0
> ruby -v:
> ruby 1.6.5 (2001-11-28) [i386-linux]
> 
> Leo
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