From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2003-12-09T11:26:41+09:00
Subject: Re: drb on windows not connecting

Joel VanderWerf wrote:
> Shashank Date wrote:
> 
>> "Joel VanderWerf" <vjoel@PATH.Berkeley.EDU> wrote in message
>> news:3FD4E56F.40200@path.berkeley.edu...
>>
>>> The drb examples just hang without doing anything.
>>
>>
>>
>> In name.rb, just replace the gets after the puts '[return] to exit'
>> with DRb.thread.join and see the fun ;-)
> 
> 
> Ok, got it now.
> 
> Anyone know why the behavior differs from linux to windows?

I suppose #gets hangs the other threads? Ugh. Oh, well. I'm writing GUI 
stuff anyway, so I don't care too much about the console on windows.