From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2008-03-16T06:32:12+09:00
Subject: Re: How to make net-ping thread safe?



On Mar 15, 11:28 am, Laurent Julliard <laur...@moldus.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm using the excellent net-ping gem (v 1.2.2 on Ruby 1.8.6 Linux box)
> from Daniel Berger to ping a number of machines on a local area network.
>
> I recently refactored my code to use threads and I'm having troubles
> with Net::Ping::ICMP. I'm trying to ping several machines, each one in a
> separate thread and I'm seing strange things like when one machine is on
> all three machines are reported on (although two are off). When I run my
> program with one thread only the on/off state shows as expected.
>
> So I'm wondering if the Net::Ping::ICMP#ping method is thread safe?

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Hi Laurent,

Please apply Joel's patches and let me know how it works. If all is
well I'll apply the patches and put out another release.

BTW, thanks Joel!

Regards,

Dan