From: Dennis Nedry <dennis@...>
Date: 2010-05-26T04:57:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Funny IO.select behaviour

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Joel VanderWerf
<joelvanderwerf@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dennis Nedry wrote:
>>
>> 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [i686-linux]
>
> Can you try upgrading to the latest 1.8.6 or 1.8.7? IIRC there were a lot of
> changes to threading somewhere in the 1.8.6 patchlevels. Or it could be
> something else...

I thought about that.  I'm kind of nervous about doing that, because
the ruby BBS I wrote didn't like 1.8.7.  It used to get segfaults.

I think you might be on to something.  I don't think I'm doing
something wrong, it just ain't pretty.


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