From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2004-05-08T20:39:50+09:00
Subject: Re: pthread masters (that's you guy)

Hi,

In message "pthread masters (that's you guy)"
    on 04/05/08, "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov> writes:

|if the c calls themselves manage the pthreads directly (which they do)
|wouldn't it be sufficient to simply protect access to these calls from more
|than 1 ruby thread at a time?

Yes.  I think you also need to protect vtalrm interrupt during
pthread-calling functions, wrapping with

  TRAP_BEG;
  function();
  TRAP_END;

							matz.