From: Peter Hickman <peter@...>
Date: 2003-01-22T01:58:57+09:00
Subject: Re: [Threads + Sockets] Strange behavior

I modified your code to include a rescue clause and of course got a 
whole load of...

start
failed
done

Then I set the socket to a valid address and got a whole load of

start
done

So it would seem that your code works but perhaps too fast between the 
socket open and close for the other thread to get started. So I added a 
sleep 5 between the open and close.

start
start
start
start
start
start
start
start
start
start
done
done
done
done
done
done
done
done
done
done

So the problem with your code is that the operation of opening the 
socket and closing it is too fast to allow another thread to get started 
giving the appearance of serial execution.

You are learning fast!