From: Chris <nemo@...>
Date: 2002-11-23T11:32:50+09:00
Subject: Thread problems

Hello,

I found that some old code that had once worked just sort of stopped
working.  It turns out that Thread.new do ... end wasn't doing anything; it
may as well have been a comment.

So I ran the following test:

  Thread.new do
    raise 'Your faith in Thread was well-placed.'
  end
  time = Time.now + 1
  while (Time.now < time)
    Thread.pass
  end

It just sat there for a second, then was done.  No exception was raised.
This was on my ruby 1.7.2 (2002-07-02) [i386-mswin32] machine.  So, I tried
it on my ruby 1.7.3 (2002-10-09) [i686-linux] machine, and it did the same
thing:  one second of nothing.

I know threads didn't just 'stop working' all over the world just now, so it
must be me.  What am I doing wrong??

Bewildered,

Chris