Luis Lavena
7/9/2008 10:07:00 PM
On Jul 8, 9:00 pm, Daniel Berger <djber...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Jul 8, 8:46 am, "ara.t.howard" <ara.t.how...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Jul 8, 2008, at 8:26 AM, Armin Armbruster wrote:
>
> > > Can anybody please explain this to me and more importantly show me a
> > > solution on how to do this so it works under Windows as well?
>
> > it's well known - on windows *all* threads are blocked when the
> > process is blocked on IO.
>
> It's actually a bug in MRI. JRuby does not exhibit that behavior, for
> example. Park Heesob posted a patch a short while back that fixes it,
> too. That patch has already been applied to Sapphire.
>
Hey Dan, can you confirm if that patches make Drb tests stall or pass?
similar change introduced in 1.8 (but reverted due this) stall at
least for GCC.
Maybe we can give another shot at this and merge into 1.8 again.
Thank you,
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Luis Lavena