From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2008-03-10T13:38:31+09:00
Subject: Re: [RFC] TimeoutError in core, timeouts for ConditionVariable#wait

Hi,

At Sun, 9 Mar 2008 12:13:39 +0900,
MenTaLguY wrote in [ruby-core:15835]:
>  1. I added a second optional argument to ConditionVariable#wait which
> specifies a timeout in seconds.  If no second argument is provided,
> #wait will wait indefinitely, as it did before.  If a specified timeout
> elapses before the waiting thread is signaled, #wait raises
> TimeoutError.  Timeouts <= 0 raise TimeoutError immediately.

Sounds nice.

>  2. To support this without introducing a new dependency on timeout.rb
> (Timeout itself is not used), I moved TimeoutException into core;
> Timeout::Error is now a constant set to TimeoutException, rather than
> the other way around.

I'm not sure if it is reasonable to implement it without
timeout.rb.

-- 
Nobu Nakada