From: Lorien Dunn <loriend@...>
Date: 2002-09-14T08:21:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Why can't ruby be used from a (native) thread other than the main one?

Oops,
	I made it to the page. I don't know what was going wrong. From Nobu's reply:

>Now 1.7 deals with non-blocking IO, so WSAEventSelect() and
>MsgWaitForMultipleObjects() solution may be acceptable.

	I don't know about WSAEventSelect(), but MsgWaitForMultipleObjects() is the equivalent of the select() call on unix. However as far as I can tell it doesn't work on pipes!

	One possible solution could be to use sockets instead of pipes, because micro$oft just ripped the bsd sockets code and put it in windoze. As a result, sockets are the only type that support the unix select() call. However i doubt ruby exploits this "feature" of windoze.


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On Sat, 14 Sep 2002 08:09:35 +0900
Lorien Dunn <loriend@bigpond.com> wrote:

> 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
>