From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...>
Date: 2012-04-25T00:27:04+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:44596] Re: [ruby-trunk - Bug #6341] SIGSEGV: Thread.new { fork { GC.start } }.join

(4/24/12 6:55 AM), Yusuke Endoh wrote:
> Hello,
>
> 2012/4/24, KOSAKI Motohiro<kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>:
>> Do you want raise NotImplementError on _all_ platform?
>
> My answer is yes, if the problem occurs actually.
>
>
>> So, one option is, fork after thread.new raise
>> an exception on all platform.
>
> Looks good.

okey. at first, I'd like to add a warnings and observe how much apps
makes whiny.


>>> Note, my suggestion is based on my uncertain guess about NetBSD 5.0+.
>>> I'm not even a user of NetBSD.  I think anyone should confirm if my
>>> guess is correct.
>>> Kosaki-san, if you seriously want to support NetBSD, I'd like you to
>>> be a platform maintainer for NetBSD.
>>
>> Nope. I'm not NetBSD user.
>
> Why do all the tests need to be passed on a platform that
> there is no maintainer for?

I think, no maintainer != we should ignore such platform. It only mean
we care a little than supported one.