From: Gordon Thiesfeld <gthiesfeld@...>
Date: 2008-07-10T21:16:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Threads: Different behavior under Linux and Windows

On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Luis Lavena <luislavena@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey Dan, can you confirm if that patches make Drb tests stall or pass?
> similar change introduced in 1.8 (but reverted due this) stall at
> least for GCC.
>
> Maybe we can give another shot at this and merge into 1.8 again.
>
> Thank you,
> --
> Luis Lavena
>
>

Also, a recently added spec in Rubyspec is hanging when using threads.
 The code that hangs is in 1.8\library\socket\tcpsocket\shared\new.rb.
 This is the failing example: http://pastie.org/231434

If you run:

>mspec 1.8/library/socket/tcpsocket

You should see it hang.

The offending code is run once for tcpsocket/new_spec.rb and once for
tcpsocket/open_spec.rb.  If you run either  file individually, no
problems.  Do you think this is the same problem?

I've tested on these version:

ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [i386-mswin32]
ruby 1.8.6 (2008-03-03 patchlevel 114) [i386-mingw32]
ruby 1.8.6 (2008-07-03 patchlevel 265) [i386-mingw32]

Thanks,

Gordon Thiesfeld