From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-01-22T17:20:25+09:00
Subject: Re: thread example

2010/1/22 Jacob Mitchell <jacob.d.mitchell@gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:53 PM, Ruby Newbee <rubynewbee@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> After I run it, I didn's see any output, even the expected puts:
>> "I counted up to #{@count} before I was cruelly stopped."
>>
>> Where is wrong?
>> Thanks.
>>
>>
> The output is getting buffered so it's just not getting displayed before the
> thread stops.  To fix this, put "$stdout.flush" at the end of your code.

I would rather add "counter.join" at the end because otherwise process
may exit before the thread had time to generate the output.  In that
case sync = true does not help much.

Kind regards

robert

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