From: Aaron Turner <synfinatic@...>
Date: 2008-03-03T03:00:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Sleeping threads don't wake up?

On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Arlen Cuss <celtic@sairyx.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
>  >> require 'drb'
>  => true
>
> >> class Server
>  >> def start_reaper
>  >> @reaper = Thread.new do
>  ?> loop do
>  ?> sleep 10
>  >> puts "looping"
>  >> end
>  >> end
>  >> end
>  >> end
>  => nil
>  >> server = Server.new
>  => #<Server:0xb7a9f544>
>
> >> DRb.start_service(nil, server)
>
>  => #<DRb::lots of rubbish here>>
>  >>
>  ?> server.start_reaper
>  => #<Thread:0xb7a8818c sleep>
>  >> DRb.thread.join
>  looping
>  looping
>  looping
>  looping
>
>  It may be output buffering.
>
>  Arlen
>

Hmm... no, it's not output buffering.  What OS/ruby ver are you on?
I'm on Linux/1.8.6.


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