From: Richard Kilmer <rich@...>
Date: 2003-02-15T05:02:53+09:00
Subject: Re: thread doc

 From monitor.rb rd doc:

monitor.rb

Copyright (C) 2001  Shugo Maeda <shugo@ruby-lang.org>

This library is distributed under the terms of the Ruby license. You 
can freely distribute/modify this library.

example

This is a simple example.
require 'monitor.rb'

buf = []
buf.extend(MonitorMixin)
empty_cond = buf.new_cond

# consumer
Thread.start do
   loop do
     buf.synchronize do
       empty_cond.wait_while { buf.empty? }
       print buf.shift
     end
   end
end

# producer
while line = ARGF.gets
   buf.synchronize do
     buf.push(line)
     empty_cond.signal
   end
end

The consumer thread waits for the producer thread to push a line to buf 
while buf.empty?, and the producer thread (main thread) reads a line 
from ARGF and push it to buf, then call empty_cond.signal.

-rich


On Friday, February 14, 2003, at 01:31  PM, yannick wrote:

> Hello everybody,
>
> �
>
> Sorry if this question was asked before.
>
> But do there is some extensive documentation and other examples 
> available for sync.rb and monitor.rb (in the ruby/lib) ?
>
> �
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> �
>
> yannick
>