From: Christopher Dicely Date: 2011-05-12T09:42:41+09:00 Subject: Re: Creating and Executing New Threads On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 3:52 PM, 7stud -- wrote: > Read the first paragraph here: > > http://rubylearning.com/satishtalim/ruby_threads.html Of course, that paragraph is only correct for MRI 1.8.x and earlier, and is irrelevant to the issue here, which was correctly addressed in the first post in the thread, and has nothing to do with any special peculiarities of thread implementations in any of the various Ruby implementations, but just with the fact that threads (even native threads) aren't the same thing as native processes.