From: why the lucky stiff <ruby-core@...>
Date: 2006-08-16T03:42:18+09:00
Subject: Re: sandbox timers & block scopes

On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 02:46:30AM +0900, MenTaLguY wrote:
> Having a watchdog thread should require the least hackery -- maybe the
> only question at that point is whether it's easy for a separate thread
> to cleanly kill a rogue sandbox the way you want it to?

Yeah, that's just it.  I don't want to kill the whole thread containing the
sandbox.  Just stop the eval.  And if I can avoid using an actual Ruby thread to
monitor the sandbox, I would like that!

I'm shooting for:

  Sandbox.new(:timeout => 10).eval(str)

_why