From: Aredridel <aredridel@...>
Date: 2003-04-25T06:46:27+09:00
Subject: Re: asynchronous ruby

On Thu, 2003-04-24 at 14:52, Brian Candler wrote:
> 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 :-)

Wouldn't having a ruby-interface thread do the job?  Just have the
foreign thread call the ruby-interpreter thread, which passes the call
to ruby -- right?

Aredridel