From: Sam Duncan <sduncan@...>
Date: 2011-07-29T05:47:59+09:00
Subject: Re: long loops inside threads

No worries. You are on the doorstep of an exciting and endlessly 
frustrating world. Have fun =]

Sam


On 29/07/11 08:39, Miguel Angel Nieto wrote:
> Hi,
>
> That was the problem! I have to reread the threat chapter of the ruby
> book ;)
>
> Thank you.
>
> Sam Duncan wrote in post #1013619:
>> Are you join'ing the thread? If not your main thread is likely to exit
>> before the counting thread has.
>>
>>   >  cat /tmp/test.rb
>> require 'thread'
>>
>> t = Thread.new {
>>     count=0
>>     while count<  10000 do
>>       puts "x"
>>       count +=1
>>     end
>> }
>> t.join
>>
>>
>>   >  ruby /tmp/test.rb |wc -l
>> 10000
>>
>>   >  ruby /tmp/test.rb |wc -l
>> 10000
>>
>>   >  ruby /tmp/test.rb |wc -l
>> 10000
>>
>>
>> Sam