From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-09-24T14:58:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Thread safety: Serializing access to ruby interpreter- again

Hi,

At Fri, 19 Sep 2003 17:37:09 +0900,
Thomas Sondergaard wrote:
> > Using a pipe (or any IO) as the trigger which wakes Monitor up.
> 
> That doesn't work. Blocking on a pipe (or any IO) in Windows blocks the
> entire ruby process. This sample will just block and get no where in Windows
> after writing "hello from main" once, while in Linux it happily prints
> "hello from main" once a second.

Socket might work.

> Out of curiousity, why does this happen on Windows? Is it not fixable?

Because winsock's select() supports only socket handles.

-- 
Nobu Nakada