Re: [MacRuby-devel] some gcd issues

2010-06-04 Thread B. Ohr
Hi Ernest, Am 04.06.2010 um 19:03 schrieb Ernest N. Prabhakar, Ph.D.: > Hmm, you should NOT need to call "group" on the @job for normal usage. > > Could you just use "@job.join" to get the behavior you want? > Thanks, I am using join now! Unfortunately join is crashing too with the main que

Re: [MacRuby-devel] [MacRuby] #731: uninitialized constant IO::WaitReadable / IO::WaitWritable

2010-06-04 Thread MacRuby
#731: uninitialized constant IO::WaitReadable / IO::WaitWritable --+- Reporter: watson1...@… | Owner: lsansone...@… Type: defect| Status: new Priority: b

Re: [MacRuby-devel] [MacRuby] #737: Unpack inconsistencies (possibly related to issue #605?)

2010-06-04 Thread MacRuby
#737: Unpack inconsistencies (possibly related to issue #605?) -+-- Reporter: babs.d...@… | Owner: lsansone...@… Type: defect | Status: new Priority: major

Re: [MacRuby-devel] Changeset 3398: mark Process.fork as not supported-implemented ... motivation?

2010-06-04 Thread Thibault Martin-Lagardette
(I'm CCing the MacRuby list just in case someone would be looking for the same answer. You can definitely do threads, but the easiest way would be to use IO.popen: $> macruby -e 'io = IO.popen("sleep 5"); p Process.waitpid(io.pid, 0)' 56484 You can of course use Process.WNOHANG instead of 0. Ple

Re: [MacRuby-devel] Changeset 3398: mark Process.fork as not supported-implemented ... motivation?

2010-06-04 Thread Thibault Martin-Lagardette
Hi! MacRuby makes intensive use of many system Frameworks and libraries, which makes us limited by the CAVEATS of fork(). What it means for us, is that we can use fork() for the typical pipe+dup2+fork+exec (any exec from the exec family) to run a binary and read its output. That's what we use f

[MacRuby-devel] Changeset 3398: mark Process.fork as not supported-implemented ... motivation?

2010-06-04 Thread macruby
Just curious: why was MacRuby added to the not-support list for fork() : Changeset 3398: mark Process.fork as not supported-implemented. Is there some subtle issue that will keep this from being implemented? -Daniel ___ MacRuby-devel mailing list MacR

Re: [MacRuby-devel] On the MacRuby web site

2010-06-04 Thread macruby
Not sure if macruby.org cares, but a search for macruby @ apple.com comes up with no links, but a page with MacRuby 0.4 (not 0.6) ... also in need of an update... On Thu, 3 Jun 2010 19:17:56 -0700 Matt Aimonetti wrote: You are correct, the website would need an update. - Matt On Thu, Ju

Re: [MacRuby-devel] [MacRuby] #584: BigMath.sqrt always returns NaN

2010-06-04 Thread MacRuby
#584: BigMath.sqrt always returns NaN -+-- Reporter: hghoe...@… | Owner: lsansone...@… Type: defect | Status: new Priority: major

Re: [MacRuby-devel] some gcd issues

2010-06-04 Thread Ernest N. Prabhakar, Ph.D.
Hi Bernd, On Jun 4, 2010, at 1:28 AM, B. Ohr wrote: > Hi, > > yesterday I did my first steps with GCD: parsing a very big CSV-file, > processing and filtering it and displaying the result in a table view. Before > GCD the UI was blocked for more than a minute, now the user can continue > worki