From: Thomas Counsell <tamc2@...>
Date: 2004-10-01T20:00:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Webrick gets stuck with certain exceptions?

Thank you Marcus.  I'm running ruby  1.8.1 (2003-12-25) that I compiled 
from source on my Mac (OS X 10.3.5).  I have looked at the ruby 
changelog and can't see mention of this recursion bug, but I have no 
experience with changelog files, so I may have missed it. I will try 
installing 1.8.2 over the weekend and see if that fixes it.  Thanks, Tom

Markus wrote:
> I'm not sure at all if this is it, but there was a bug in ruby 1.8
> (fixed, I think, in 1.8.1 or 1.8.2) that caused very deep recursion in
> some exceptions.  Some suggestions:
> 
>       * If you can, try it under 1.8.2; I wouldn't recommend blindly
>         upgrading as there are some semantics changes between 1.8 and
>         1.8.1 that (at least for me) broke things.  But it is definitely
>         worth testing
>       * Search the change logs for the bug.  If you compiled ruby from
>         source (or can) you may be able to back port the patch.
> 
> Let us know what you find out; I'll let you know if I think of anything
> further.  If you can't try either of the things I've suggested, give a
> bit more background information about the environment & I'll take a look
> at it this evening.
> 
>  -- Markus
>