From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2008-07-09T04:00:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Threads: Different behavior under Linux and Windows



On Jul 8, 8:46 am, "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.how...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 8, 2008, at 8:26 AM, Armin Armbruster wrote:
>
> > Can anybody please explain this to me and more importantly show me a
> > solution on how to do this so it works under Windows as well?
>
> it's well known - on windows *all* threads are blocked when the  
> process is blocked on IO.

It's actually a bug in MRI. JRuby does not exhibit that behavior, for
example. Park Heesob posted a patch a short while back that fixes it,
too. That patch has already been applied to Sapphire.

Regards,

Dan