From 25ec619a462548c29fc706e7bb98094b43d94c13 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Richard W.M. Jones" Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2012 09:12:18 +0100 Subject: todo: Implement Ruby blocking calls. --- TODO | 14 ++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+) diff --git a/TODO b/TODO index 1cde423b..d9dd1d3a 100644 --- a/TODO +++ b/TODO @@ -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). + +ruby +---- + +Implement blocking calls. The API for this: + + http://www.spacevatican.org/2012/7/5/whos-afraid-of-the-big-bad-lock/ + +is very poorly designed and essentially impossible for us to use: + + https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/5543 + +particularly if we also want to maintain backwards compatibility with +Ruby 1.8, and/or maintain volatile VALUEs on the stack. -- cgit