Stops the Ruby interpreter

[TwP]

Using ruby-fsevent on ruby 1.8.7p174

I'm creating an FSEvent notifier class and then calling start inside a thread ....

Thread.new { my_notifier.start }

My notifier is putting the list of changed directories into a queue to be picked up later by another thread. The problem is that the entire ruby interpreter halts; all other threads are suspended.

Not sure why this is happening. Is this the expected behavior?

TwP

[sandro]

I wouldn't exactly say it's expected behavior. I actually never tried using this library in a threaded environment. I can confirm that when start the service in a thread, the ruby-interpreter blocks, waiting for the service to stop. Unfortunately, I don't know enough C to know how to fix it. Sorry this is blocking you (pun intended).

[sdhull]

Hah I get this same issue just in irb when doing
require 'fsevent'
It will not return from that... :(
TwP -- sadly, this means that your fsevent branch of directory_watcher is unusable for me.

[sandro]

That is, unless you run directory_watcher under TwP's fork of ruby-fsevent.

[sdhull]

Ahhh. I see.