From: hatespyware@... (anon luker)
Date: 2003-12-23T17:56:52+09:00
Subject: bug: threads and win32

Hi.  I use Arton X's Activeruby package (ruby 1.8.0 (2003-08-04)
[i386-mswin32]), since it lets me do WSH stuff (ASP, COM, etc).  I am
new to Ruby, and may have just made a luser error, but the following
does not work for me:

tt = Thread.new do
	puts "listening..."
	sleep 2
	puts "listening..."
end

$stdin.each do |command|
	break if command=~/quit/i or command=~/exit/i
	tt.join if command=~/join/i
end

I expect it to print "listening..." twice, and it only prints it once.
 If I type join, then I get the second message.  The code works as
expected under Linux.  I haven't tried other Windows builds, because
they don't include the WScript stuff.

Is this a common problem?  Are there good workarounds?  I thought Ruby
implemented the threads in some internal system independant way, so
this is confusing to me.  Any help/info would be greatly appreciated.

thanks