From: Andrew Hunt <Andy@...>
Date: 2000-05-21T19:00:30-04:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:02914] mutex mechanism?



Hi again,

Can someone please educate me on the preffered method of handling
mutual exclusion in threads?  It would seem that Thread.critical isn't
quite sufficient, and their exists a number of library modules that
provide some form of mutex or other synchronization mechanism.

Which one is the preferred method?

(Side note -- for major releases, might it be a good idea to prune the 
distribution tree to remove experimental or unsupported modules?  It
might create less confusion for novices...)


Thanks as always,

/\ndy


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