From: Lyle Johnson <lyle@...>
Date: 2002-12-12T12:44:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Threading problem (maybe with FXRuby)

Jason Persampieri wrote:

> I'm attempting to spawn a thread when a user clicks a
> button.  The thread makes a system call.  If I don't
> do a thread.join immediately after, the app crashes
> (unknown software exception).  Does FXRuby not like it
> when a child thread makes system calls?  A thread in a
> 'standard' Ruby app (without FXRuby) can make these
> calls just fine.
> 
> Any ideas?

Which version of Ruby? If it's Ruby 1.6.7, please try it under Ruby 
1.7.3 to see if it works there.