From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-04-04T18:30:32+09:00
Subject: Re: File change notification?

Hi,

At Thu, 28 Mar 2002 02:33:06 +0900,
QUEISSER,ANDREW (HP-Corvallis,ex1) <andrew_queisser@hp.com> wrote:
> For future refinement I have one follow-on question: can I build
> an extension DLL that creates it's own NT thread which would block
> on the change notification handle? Can the NT thread signal a
> blocked Ruby thread waiting on a mutex? I suppose the answers must
> be 'yes' but I'm not sure if I'm overlooking something.

"Yes" for first question, and "not impossible but difficult"
for next one.  Now win32(mswin32 and mingw32) ruby uses
select() in Winsock2, but it can use socket handle only, so
normal win32 thread synchronization mechanisms can't be used.

-- 
Nobu Nakada