Hi:
I have noticed an issue with readline since upgrading to Leopard.
The readline command seems to be blocking all the other active threads
require ‘readline’
other = Thread.new do
time = Time.now
while true
time = Time.now
sleep(2)
puts “slept(#{time - Time.now})”
end
end
cli = Thread.new do
loop do
Readline::readline("\nreadline > ", true)
end
end
cli.join
+++ expected behavior:
$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.6 (2007-03-13 patchlevel 0) [i386-freebsd6.2]
$ ruby testreadline.rb
readline >
readline > slept(-2.080508)
slept(-2.019907)
slept(-2.020017)
slept(-2.020015)
slept(-2.020017)
slept(-2.020017)
slept(-2.020037)
slept(-2.019993)
testreadline.rb:16:in `join’: Interrupt
from testreadline.rb:16
===============================
+++ Bogus behavior on OS X 10.5.1
$ ruby -v
ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-24 patchlevel 111) [powerpc-darwin9.1.0]
Readline::readline("\nreadline > ", true)
Thread.pass <<< so the 'other' thread gets a chance to run.
$ ruby readline.rb
readline >
readline >
slept(-6.416737)
readline >
slept(-6.303147)
readline >
slept(-3.599555)
readline >
slept(-7.511554)
readline >
Is this a known issue ?
Jean-Michel