From: Shashank Date <sdate@...>
Date: 2003-01-20T05:12:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Strange sleep behavior?

I am no expert on Ruby threading so this is just a guess:

When the new thread (th) is created and it encounters the sleep(5) it gets
"descheduled" (may not be the right technical term). Now the main thread is
scheduled to run and waits till you hit the key also blocking the other
thread till then. You hit the key, the main thread continues and calls
th.run which causes th to restart. Try replacing th.run with th.join and see
if the whole thing hangs (not a good thing I admit ;-))

HTH,
-- shanko


"Bjorn Stahl" <bjst01@student.bth.se> wrote in message
news:20030119205500.147094cf.bjst01@student.bth.se...
> th = Thread.new{
>  print "Going to sleep for 5 seconds\n"
>  sleep(5)
>  print "Going to sleep for infinity\n"
>  sleep(0)
>  print "awake, did someone wake me up?\n"
> }
>
> key = STDIN.getc
> th.run
> -----------------------------------------------
> will give:
> Going to sleep for 5 seconds
> Going to sleep for infinity
> awake, did someone wake me up?
> <pressing key>
> test.rb:9:in `run': killed thread (ThreadError)
>         from test.rb:9
> (with both 1.8.0-preview and 1.6.8)
> -----------------------------------------------
>
> from the pickaxe book "...An argument of zero causes sleep to sleep
forever. "
>
> Have I seriously misunderstood this or something more evil is at work
here? :-)
> As far as I can see the thread should not give "awake, did someone wake me
up"
> until after I've pressed a key, but sleep 0 seems to really sleep for 0
seconds
> instead of until SIGALRM/run.
>
>
>