From: Curt Hibbs <curt@...>
Date: 2002-08-02T00:14:35+09:00
Subject: RE: "gets" blocking process not thread (in Windows only)

Hal E. Fulton wrote:
>
> From: "Laurent Julliard"
>
> > 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.

It might be related. The one of the test cases I am currently using does not
involve any typing at all -- the user doesn't have to do anything.

in anycase, once I find the problem and have a fix I will test it against
these similar reports.

Curt