From: Charles Oliver Nutter <headius@...>
Date: 2011-04-30T15:33:00+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:35957] Re: change in timeout error

On Thu, Apr 28, 2011 at 7:05 PM, Roger Pack <rogerdpack2@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello. Sorry if this is a repeat...
>
> I noticed that apparently from
> http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/vframe.rb/ruby/ruby-core/15458?15182-15607+split-mode-vertical
>
> In CRuby 1.9, Timeout::Error is a StandardError so you can rescue it
> with the 'rescue' statement.
> In CRuby 1.8, Timeout::Error is not a StandardError but a Interrupt
> which is a subclass of SignalException. So you can NOT rescue it with
> the 'rescue'.

I assume you mean you can't rescue it with a bare 'rescue'. Of course
you can rescue Exception or Interrupt or Timeout::Error.

I do not know why the change was made, but we recently fixed in JRuby
in response to a bug report.

- Charlie