From: Mike Hall <mghall@...>
Date: 2002-07-23T03:25:10+09:00
Subject: Q: threads and sleeping system calls


I've been playing around, adding a Dir::notify method
that uses 'directory notification' on Linux.
Summary: do a couple file-controls, setup a signal handler,
wait for a signal to occur.

This works OK in a single threaded script,
but it makes all the threads stop, when I use it
inside a thread.

Does anyone have any pointers to some thread-friendly
ways of doing this?  Should I try to use Ruby's signal
and trap handling?  (but I need to get to the 'siginfo' struct)

Any clues appreciated!
Thanks!

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Mike Hall
http://www.enteract.com/~mghall