From: Simon Strandgaard <0bz63fz3m1qt3001@...>
Date: 2003-05-18T22:50:13+09:00
Subject: Re: C Extensions blocking all ruby threads

On Sun, 18 May 2003 12:55:51 +0900, Florian G. Pflug wrote:

> Of course one solutions would be to fix those extensions (if it's possible -
> I don't know if there is a non-blocking api to mysql). But I though, that
> maybe ruby could replace the read() and write() functions of the libc with
> something that respects other ruby threads (by using a rb_thread_select
> loop) before loading c-extensions. 

I cannot distinguish if you are talking about mysql only problem ?  
or a general problem with extensions ?


if this is mysql only, then why not propose it to the maintainer of 
the mysql ruby extension ?

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Simon Strandgaard