From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2000-07-14T15:28:52+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:04002] Re: Thread and File do not work together

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:03971] Thread and File do not work together"
    on 00/07/13, "Michael Neumann" <neumann@s-direktnet.de> writes:

|following example do not work correctly with my ruby 
|(ruby 1.4.5 (2000-06-26) [i386-mswin32])

Finally, I got it.

|Thread.start {
|   print "ok\n"
|   print File::readlines("index.htm").to_s  
|}
|readline
|
|It prints "ok" but nothing else.
|If I comment out the "Thread.start {", then it works.
|
|What's wrong?

Thread.start creates new thread and fork it, then readline meets EOF
and raise error in the main thread.  When the main thread terminates
whole process (including forked thread) be terminated too.

  Thread.start {
     print "ok\n"
     print File::readlines("index.htm").to_s  
  }.join
  readline

will change the situation.

							matz.