From: Shashank Date <ADATE@...>
Date: 2002-08-20T11:29:23+09:00
Subject: thread control

I am trying to write a ruby script (Ruby 1.7.2 mswin32) which does the
following:
1. Spawn a few threads (say 3, for the time being) each of which invokes an
external program using the backquotes.
2. Let the main thread continue till either all the threads are done
executing OR some external event occurs (like deletion of a file by  another
program).

I cannot seem to make it work (may be because thread implementation in Ruby
is not "native" ?).
Please help. TIA,
-- Shanko

# Here is my broken script:
# ------------------------------------------------------
cmds = [
        "ping 10.0.0.0 -n 30 -w 1000 > NUL",
        "ping 10.0.0.0 -n 60 -w 1000 > NUL",
        "ping 10.0.0.0 -n 90 -w 1000 > NUL"
       ]

out = []
threads = []

for c in cmds
    threads << Thread.new(c) { |myCmd|
        puts "#{myCmd}"
        out << `#{myCmd}`
    }
end

puts threads.length.to_s + ' threads running'

begin
    i = 0
    threads.each { |t| i += 1 if t.stop? }
    puts `echo %TIME%`
    b = File.exists?("C:\\junk\\tmp_0.txt")
    puts i.to_s + ':' + File.mtime("C:\\junk\\tmp_0.txt").to_s if  $DEBUG
and b
    $stdout.flush
end until (i == threads.length) && (not b)
puts out if $DEBUG
# ------------------------------------------------------