Re: [MacRuby] #954: Race condition: assertion fails with IO.pipe, when checks size of String which had read from pipe. (was: Assertion fails with IO.pipe, when checks size of String which had read from pipe.)

12 Oct 2010

      #954: Race condition: assertion fails with IO.pipe, when checks size of String
which had read from pipe.
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 Reporter:  watson1978@…          |       Owner:  lsansonetti@…        
     Type:  defect                |      Status:  new                  
 Priority:  blocker               |   Milestone:                       
Component:  MacRuby               |    Keywords:                       
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Comment(by lsansonetti@…):

 The following works:

 {{{
 r, w = IO.pipe
 s = ""
 t = Thread.new { r.read(5, s) }
 w.write "foobarbaz"
 sleep 0.5

 true until s.size == 5 # crash
 p t.value
 p s
 }}}

 The problem is that the same string object cannot be passed to IO#read and
 perform String#size at the same time.

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