From: James Tucker <jftucker@...>
Date: 2010-07-23T22:25:03+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:31458] Re: [Bug #3606] Thread.stop and puts fail to work as documented.


On 23 Jul 2010, at 05:55, Heesob Park wrote:

> Bug #3606: Thread.stop and puts fail to work as documented.
> http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/3606
> 
> Author: Heesob Park
> Status: Open, Priority: Normal
> Category: core, Target version: 1.9.x
> ruby -v: ruby 1.9.3dev (2010-07-22 trunk 28707) [i686-linux] 
> 
> I have tested following three codes which are the sample code in RDoc Documentation.

I see your point regarding this being code from the documentation. Examples as given in the documentation cannot work reliably with a preemptive scheduler and should be removed.

I would also say that use of Thread.stop and Thread.pass for any kind of "synchrony" should be very strongly discouraged, we have locking primitives.