From: "Mauricio Fernández" <batsman.geo@...>
Date: 2003-02-28T01:42:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Threads, pipes, popen, whatever

On Thu, Feb 27, 2003 at 10:59:36PM +0900, Robert Klemme wrote:
> > > Yes, I did not think of looking for a global variable.  This is a nice
> > > example of the drawbacks: If two threads use popen you can't be sure
> any
> > > more that the value you read from $? is the correct one.
> >
> > Nope, $? is thread local.
> 
> Just out of curiosity: where is that documented?  I could not find it at
> http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/man-1.4/variable.html#question  Thanks!

Pickaxe p. 218.
I couldn't locate the pertinent table in the HTML version, believe it's
not there...


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