From: nobuyoshi nakada <nobuyoshi.nakada@...>
Date: 2005-10-14T11:26:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Thread leak?

Hi,

At Fri, 14 Oct 2005 02:16:15 +0900,
Adam Beguelin wrote in [ruby-talk:160449]:
> begin
>   execLine = "sleep 100"
>   while true do
>     t = Thread.new  {
>       begin
>         e = IO.popen(execLine)
>         e.readlines
>       ensure
          if e && !e.closed?
            Process.kill(e.pid)
            e.close
          end
>       end
>     }
>     
>     begin
>       timeout(1) { t.join }
>     rescue TimeoutError => e
>       puts "timeout: "+e.to_s
>       t.kill
>     end
>     c = 0
>     ObjectSpace.garbage_collect
>     ObjectSpace.each_object{|t| c += 1 if t.class == Thread}
>     puts "num threads #{c}"
>     break if c > 20
>   end  
> end

-- 
Nobu Nakada