From: Hongli Lai <hongli@...99.net>
Date: 2009-03-19T03:42:19+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:22932] Re: 1.9 conditional wait has no timeout support

Nasir Khan wrote:
> Dear Esteemed core members,
>  
> Any comment or any update on the issue below will be greatly 
> appreciated. I must say that IMHO without this feature 1.9 will remain 
> unusable for most multi-threaded programs requiring timer like behavior.
>  
> Regards
> Nasir

Agreed, timed wait is a very important feature.

In the mean time, Phusion Passenger implements this by using 
Timeout#timeout, but it's very hacky. It happens to work in MRI 1.8 and 
1.9 but I have a feeling that it won't always stay that way.
http://github.com/FooBarWidget/passenger/blob/4e57c4f2ce47e11a860ca503c7602efaffb65d89/lib/phusion_passenger/utils.rb#L369