From: Mark Slagell <ms@...>
Date: 2002-03-24T06:19:50+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-gtk fatal error

Patrik Sundberg wrote:

>hi,
>
>I am writing an application using gtk,threads and sockets. When my application
>has performed any thread- and socket operations I alwats get this on stderr
>when closing the application (using exit(0)):
>Gdk-ERROR **: Fatal IO error 9 (Bad file descriptor) on X server :0.0.
>
>When this occurs my window closes but control isn't returned to the shell,
>instead the process starts some infinte loop consuming lots of CPU.
>
>Does anyone know what this could be?
>
>I use latest stable ruby snapshot and ruby-gnome 0.27 under FreeBSD 4.5.
>
Patrik, I'd like to see a (fairly small) script that exhibits this behavior.

  Mark