From: Lyle Johnson <ljohnson2@...>
Date: 2002-04-06T12:15:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Threading still broken in Win Ruby?

> Somewhere in the middle of that thread a few weeks back on the development
> of the Windows version of Ruby someone mentioned that threads are still
> not working correctly in the non-cygwin Windows Ruby.  Does anyone have
> details?  What's broke?  Any plans to fix it?

Since I am temporarily unemployed (until April 22) I hope to be able to
spend some time looking into this over the next week or so.

I can see at least one of the symptoms of the problem in FXRuby (where a
call to rb_thread_wait_for() never returns) but haven't even started to look
into the Ruby source code to decide "what's broke". The few times I've
looked through the threading code (in eval.c) it was somewhat daunting, and
so I don't know if I'll come up with anything or not. But it affects me and
so I have a personal interest in getting it fixed ;)

By the way, if anyone else reading this can suggest some smaller test cases
(maybe from the Rubicon?) that also exhibit bad behavior (thread-wise) let
me know...