From: Nathaniel Talbott <nathaniel@...>
Date: 2003-12-08T23:54:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby blocks... forever

On Dec 8, 2003, at 09:36, ts wrote:

>>>>>> "N" == Nathaniel Talbott <nathaniel@talbott.ws> writes:
>
> N> I can find no evidence that Ruby/ODBC or FreeTDS (which I'm using
> N> Ruby/ODBC to access) use pthreads, although I admittedly do not know
> N> much about how to look. I have no earthly idea whether Ruby/Postgres
> N> uses pthreads, but I suspect it doesn't.
>
> svg% ldd ruby
>         libpthread.so.0 => /lib/i686/libpthread.so.0 (0x40027000)
>         libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x40078000)
>         libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x4007b000)
>         libm.so.6 => /lib/i686/libm.so.6 (0x400a8000)
>         libc.so.6 => /lib/i686/libc.so.6 (0x42000000)
>         /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
> svg%

OK, it appears that Ruby/ODBC and FreeTDS's ODBC layer both link to 
libpthread (though I don't really understand why; grepping for pthread 
in their source turns up nothing interesting). What does that mean?


Nathaniel

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