I should have reduced it more before posting... On Dec 31, 2003, at 15:34, Nathaniel Talbott wrote: > Here's a testcase that shows the problem: > > require 'test/unit' > > class TC < Test::Unit::TestCase > def test_time Thread.start{} > t = Time.now > sleep(5) > assert_in_delta(5, Time.now.to_i - t.to_i, 1) > end > end So the problem is much more fundamental: sleep seems to not work at all once a Ruby thread has been run if --enable-pthread is used. Any ideas? Thanks, Nathaniel <:((><