From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2004-11-16T00:02:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Finalizers...

On Wed, Nov 10, 2004 at 09:23:04PM +0900, Michael Neumann wrote:
> Are finalizers (ObjectSpace.define_finalizer) executed atomicly? Or can
> they be interrupt by other finalizers (or threads)?

I believe finalizers are only called from the garbage collector, and the
garbage collector doesn't do anything if called re-entrantly.

Also, as Carlos pointed out, finalizers are run with
Thread#critical=true, so they won't be interrupted by another thread nor
will they be interrupted by a timeout.

I think that covers all the cases, except if you explicitly call the
finalizer proc yourself.

Paul