From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-09-18T11:20:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Thread safety: Serializing access to ruby interpreter- again

Hi,

At Thu, 18 Sep 2003 09:32:21 +0900,
Thomas Sondergaard wrote:
> So if I am not allowed to touch the ruby interpreter from other threads than
> the ruby-thread how can I wake up a sleeping worker thread when there is
> something for it to do?

Using a pipe (or any IO) as the trigger which wakes Monitor up.

> Is there a heavyweight-thread-safe way to wake up a ruby thread? Shouldn't
> there be?

Agree, but wait until 1.9 or perhaps 2.0.

-- 
Nobu Nakada