From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-05-22T08:43:19+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:02916] Re: mutex mechanism?

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:02914] mutex mechanism?"
    on 00/05/21, Andrew Hunt <Andy@Toolshed.Com> writes:

|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?

I prefer Mutex in lib/thread.rb. 

							matz.