From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2008-02-07T16:53:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Timeout::Error

Hi,

At Wed, 6 Feb 2008 18:05:45 +0900,
Jeremy Thurgood wrote in [ruby-core:15374]:
> What was the change? I currently lack the time and resources to go 
> digging through commit logs for it.

TimeoutError was a subclass of StandardError till 1.6, but now
it inherits Interrupt which is not a subclass of StandardError.

> Thanks for the patch. It only fixes the symptom, however, not the 
> problem. I still have to explicitly handle timeouts in (for example) 
> HTTP requests instead of simply noting a general failure (in a bare 
> "rescue" clause), logging the exception and retrying a couple of times 
> before giving up and moving on to something else. For most of my use 
> cases, this is exactly how I would handle HTTP requests in long-running 
> services that require me to keep state.

I'm just curious, do you run long-running services in irb?

-- 
Nobu Nakada