todo: Implement Ruby blocking calls.

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@@ -572,3 +572,17 @@ Add more of hivex to the API, especially for writing.
 
 Reimplement virt-win-reg to use this API.  (This is difficult because
 the Perl libraries underneath access the hivex API directly).
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+ruby
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+Implement blocking calls.  The API for this:
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+  http://www.spacevatican.org/2012/7/5/whos-afraid-of-the-big-bad-lock/
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+is very poorly designed and essentially impossible for us to use:
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+  https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/5543
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+particularly if we also want to maintain backwards compatibility with
+Ruby 1.8, and/or maintain volatile VALUEs on the stack.