From: parisnight@... (anderson)
Date: 2003-01-29T04:22:59+09:00
Subject: pth thread in extension

I tried to pth_spawn a thread in an extension library.
The thread only runs if I pth_sleep in the method that 
spawns the thread, but I'd like to return to the ruby 
interpreter immediately and concurrently do other things.
I also tried it all in C and everything works ok there.
Is there anything I could do that would allow the pth 
thread to run freely?  I tried pth_yield and calling 
method from a ruby level Thread.new but no luck yet.
I could fork another process for the threads but then it's
not as convenient to communicate. I'm using NetBSD 1.6 
and pth 1.4.1.
Bob