From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2004-04-28T08:14:04+09:00
Subject: Re: $stdin, thread blocking and DRb (for lack of a better subject :)

On Tue, 27 Apr 2004, Ken Hilton wrote:

> Thanks Ara,
> 
> I can't try your program due to not having "readline.rb"  I that part of the
> Ruby 1.8.1 distribution?

oops.. should have been

  'rescue LoadError'

that way it'll work w/o readline....


> If not could you provide it to me?  As for how (I believe) I know that my
> threads are not running, they log events at a very fine level to a shared
> log file (mutex protected.)  As soon as the command shell calls $stdin.gets
> the threads stop logging and the DRb thread stops responding to remote
> method calls (they seem to be queued.)  As soon as I press [Enter] on my
> command shell and gets() returns the log file gets updated, my POP3 mail
> fetch completes and DRb responds immediately.  And, if I simply comment out
> the gets() call and add a hard coded command string
> that is processed repeatedly, all of the threads run in parallel.  Hmmm....

sounds tough...

- does the stdin read have the mutex while trying to gets?

-a
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