From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2004-12-20T09:52:17+09:00
Subject: Re: threads and errors

Hi,

At Mon, 20 Dec 2004 09:02:12 +0900,
Charles Mills wrote in [ruby-talk:124052]:
> What techniques are available for handling errors that occur in
> threads?

Thread#join propagats the exception occurred in the thread to
the caller.  Or, Thread#abort_on_exception flag directs to the
interpreter to abort.

> For example how do I find out that an error occured in t below?
> 
> t = Thread.new { raise "error" }

  begin
    t.join
  rescue
    puts $!
  end

-- 
Nobu Nakada