From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2004-10-16T11:46:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Thread#abort_on_exception=true and exit(0)

Hi,

In message "Re: Thread#abort_on_exception=true and exit(0)"
    on Sat, 16 Oct 2004 04:14:28 +0900, "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov> writes:

|the thing is, i want the slave to execute 'exit!' not 'exit' on thread error
|such that exit handlers do not get run.
|
|any thoughts on how to do this?

How about wrapping everything in the

  begin
    ... child ...
  rescue Exception # catch all exception (including exit)
    exit!
  end

?

							matz.