From: Lorien Dunn <loriend@...>
Date: 2002-09-14T08:09:35+09:00
Subject: Re: Why can't ruby be used from a (native) thread other than the main one?

Thanks Laurent,
	however I can't access that page. I just get :

Ruby Bug Tracking System
Ruby Search
The system encountered a fatal error
can't get info in view_message

	And I can't find msg id 401 :(. Could you perhaps forward me the work around suggested by nobu?
	And FreeRIDE looks as though it is going to be very cool.


Thanks,
Lorien Dunn




On Fri, 13 Sep 2002 23:01:04 +0900
Laurent Julliard <Laurent.Julliard@xrce.xerox.com> wrote:
> 
> For your information I have posted in bug this morning (Sep 13th, 
> 2002) which strongly relates to what you describe. The blocking read 
> on Windows when used in a thread also had the side effect of blocking 
> all other running threads :-(
> 
> See http://www.ruby-lang.org/cgi-bin/ruby-bugs/incoming?id=401 for the 
> bug report. Nobu Nakada commented that this is a known but pending 
> bug. He also suggest what I think is a workaround in its follow-up 
> comment but not being a Win32 developer I'm not sure what it means 
> exactly.
> 
> I really hope this will be fixed soon because it also impacts our 
> project (FreeRIDE - the cross platform Ruby IDE - http://www.rubyide.org)
> 
> Laurent
>