Issue #1471 has been updated by Hans de Graaff. The patches from comment #8 apply cleanly against 1.8.7-p174 and they do solve the threading issues I have with capistrano. Thanks John! We will be adding a revision bump of ruby 1.8.7 with these patches in Gentoo shortly. ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/1471 ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org