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Re: kern/42772 -- pthread issue with fork()



On 3/24/10 9:13 PM, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> The point is that you don't really get that. Consider mutexes currently
> hold by a different thread in the original program. May I strongly
> advise you to first identify exactly where Ruby is failing and based on
> that let us decide how it can be fixed.

I'll take a look into what is going on there.  Ruby 1.9 is rather...
complicated internally, and NetBSD is not (currently) a supported OS.  I
know their thread code works as-is on linux, solaris, and macos, so
whatever they are doing is "safe" from their point of view.

--Michael


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