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wait

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wait(mutex, timeout=nil) public

Releases the lock held in mutex and waits; reacquires the lock on wakeup.

If timeout is given, this method returns after timeout seconds passed, even if no other thread doesn’t signal.

# File lib/thread.rb, line 65
  def wait(mutex, timeout=nil)
    begin
      # TODO: mutex should not be used
      @waiters_mutex.synchronize do
        @waiters.push(Thread.current)
      end
      mutex.sleep timeout
    ensure
      @waiters_mutex.synchronize do
        @waiters.delete(Thread.current)
      end
    end
    self
  end

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