From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2002-08-02T00:04:53+09:00
Subject: Re: "gets" blocking process not thread (in Windows only)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Laurent Julliard" <Laurent.Julliard@xrce.xerox.com>
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Cc: "Curt Hibbs" <curt@hibbs.com>
Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 9:26 AM
Subject: Re: "gets" blocking process not thread (in Windows only)



> I don't know if this relates in any way with what Curt Hibbs is trying 
> to fix for the FreeRIDE project. We are having problems with the way 
> threads are managed when Ruby is compiled with VC++. It sounds like the 
> cygwin version runs ok. Which one do you use?
> 
> I cc Curt because this might be an interesting test case for its fix.

I think this *may* be unrelated.

In the Cygwin version, the behavior I remember 
is this (I may be wrong): gets would not block
in a thread *unless* the user had already typed
at least one character. (I know, it's weird, but
that's Windows.)

So if you did a "timeout" of a thread doing a
gets, the timeout would work if the user had not
typed anything yet, but would fail otherwise.

Hal