From: paul.rogers@... (Paul)
Date: 2004-02-18T01:45:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Blocking Calls on Win32 Ruby

Bret - I had the same issues on Windows. I was trying to use the
serial port with an FXRuby gui. I ended up having the serial driver in
a seperate ruby script, talking to the main app with drb



Bret Pettichord <bret@pettichord.com> wrote in message news:<5.1.0.14.2.20040216235853.038bacd0@127.0.0.1>...
> I am running into several problems with some Ruby code. It was written on a 
> Mac and i am trying to get it to run on my Windows box. I am using the 
> Win32 Ruby 1.6.8. I've done some reading around and it seems that the 
> problems i am seeing are caused by something i read about.
> 
> Apparently, certain blocking calls block all threads rather than just their 
> own thread. This is apparently the consequent of the use of pthreads.
> 
> My next step is to try the same code with cygwin ruby or linux ruby. (I 
> don't have a mac). I understand that both of these use better-behaved threads.
> 
> Am i on track here? Have i misunderstood something terribly? Are there 
> plans to change this with 1.8 or later?
> 
> Bret
> 
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