From: SASADA Koichi Date: 2007-12-25T11:26:48+09:00 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Timeout.timeout expires early - breaks RubyGems Hi, Dave Thomas wrote: > Do we know why the thread wakes early? I ask because I'm thinking there > are lurking signal related issues in 1.9, and this might be something > that helps track them down. Timer event wakeup thread. This timer event is used for thread preemption. I'll fix sleep(). -- // SASADA Koichi at atdot dot net