From: Kaspar Schiess <eule@...>
Date: 2004-11-30T16:55:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Deadlock in borges sample apps - 1 attachment - 1 attachment

Hello Lloyd,

> Not a waste of time at all ... this is what software and debugging is
> all about.  I'm just very grateful that you took the time to recreate
> the patch.

Good that it works. Just a word of warning, I am not sure about the 
exception handler that does 

 cur_thr.kill
 @thread = nil

especially that last line is dangerous and insufficient. It will probably 
never get executed, so that solves the problem. It should probably go 
something like this: 

 @thread[:abort_with_error] = true
 cur_thr.kill

And someone would have to check for that. 

This popped into my head last night, for what its worth... 

yours truly, 
kaspar

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