From: Eric Schwartz Date: 2004-08-14T07:46:07+09:00 Subject: Re: timeouts with threads and SIGALRM Eric Schwartz writes: > Alas, no love with this example. my_sometimes_too_long_method() just > goes on forever. I guess I'll just have to wait until my instrumented > interpreter finishes building. Not to follow up on myself or anything, but trying to rebuild the Debian ruby1.8 package gives me: $ make ../ext/extmk.rb:27:in `require': unexpected break (LocalJumpError) from ./ext/extmk.rb:27 make: *** [all] Error 1 I couldn't find anything obvious from poking at google-- if anybody has advice to share, I'd welcome it. -=Eric -- Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare. -- Blair Houghton.