From: Tommy Nordgren <tommy.nordgren@...>
Date: 2009-03-16T08:04:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Keep thread in memory


On Mar 15, 2009, at 10:35 PM, Craig Williams wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm writing a simple UDP listening server. It works great using this
>
> PORT = 1234
> server = UDPSocket.open
> server.bind("127.0.0.1", PORT)
>
> server_thread = Thread.start(server) do |server|
> 100.times { #do something }
> end
>
> server_thread.join
>
> The above was based off some code from the Ruby 1.9 book - I have a  
> problem
> now trying to take it a step further.
>
> How do I get the above to run permanently or until some other  
> condition
> besides (100) is reached?
>
> When I run this on my remote server over SSH it works but if I ctrl- 
> z or
	ctrl-z suspends the current job, and moves it to the background
>
> exit ssh, the process seems to be in memory but isn't actually  
> working. I'd
> like to run it and have it go into memory until it is killed and  
> return me
> to the ssh command.
>
> I tried leaving off the server_thread.join but then it just quits.  
> Could
> someone explain exactly what Thread.start is doing here.
>
> thanks!
> -c

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