From: Jayce Meade <azimuth-rubytalk@...>
Date: 2009-02-24T09:59:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Thread Deadlock on Ruby 1.8.7

True, if I had the starter script paused so that the main program could 
execute, an improper exit would kill the running thread and never resume the 
main one, would it?

:) Thanks for the help, I really appreciate it.

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From: "Joel VanderWerf" <vjoel@path.berkeley.edu>
Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 4:53 PM
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Subject: Re: Thread Deadlock on Ruby 1.8.7

> Jayce Meade wrote:
>> It worked, thank you. I am curious though, what exactly causes the 
>> deadlock, in most cases?
>
> Perhaps all threads were in the sleep/stop state?
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