From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-04-25T05:52:53+09:00
Subject: Re: asynchronous ruby

On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 03:32:16AM +0900, daniel wrote
> I have a big dll which is working with sockets and
> so on.
> I'v wrote a wrapping-extension for this dll and there is a
> problem that ruby crash.
> 
> the dll has a worker thread which is waiting for 
> data. On arrival of some data the thread calls a ruby
> block with 
> rb_funcall(block, rb_intern("call"), 1, INT2NUM(n) );
> If I do this ruby crash.
> 
> The callback is asynchronous.
> 
> There a two ways:
>  - find a way to call the block from this foreign thread
>  - poll in a ruby thread.
> 
> The second way is very ugly.
> 
> Is there a way in ruby to synchronize this?

Sorry, but Guy[*] has already answered this for you:
http://ruby-talk.org/69913

If you don't like the answer you got first time round, simply asking the
question again is unlikely to get the desired result :-)

Regards,

Brian.

[*] You should definitely listen to what this man says.