From: Caleb Clausen <vikkous@...>
Date: 2010-05-07T10:25:41+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:30076] Re: [Bug #3212] ConditionVariable may become 	inconsistent for interrupted threads

On 5/6/10, Yusuke ENDOH <mame@tsg.ne.jp> wrote:
>> Can a special case for
>> ctrl-c be made? Is there a more complete discussion of this issue
>> somewhere?
>
> Sorry, this is discussed in Japanese closed IRC with some committers
> including ko1, akr and kosaki.  To sum up the discussion, we thought
> convenience of Ctrl+C is more important (for casual users) then
> consistency of CV#wait.
> And, a techie who want consistency of CV#wait can achieve it by
> avoiding Thread#raise and by paying attention to signal.

Yeah, seems fair enough. I'm going to ponder the whole
double-Thread#raise thing some more, since it seems like there ought
to be a way to make it safe...

> Exactly.  You are really quine to understand :-)

> quine -> quick

Actually, I rather like being accused of being a quine... Altho I'll
also have to ponder what exactly 'quine to understand' really means.