From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2006-02-24T06:57:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Two Ruby threading questions

mental@rydia.net wrote:

> On the other hand, threads are not blithely terminated when some
> "master" thread exits.  To complete your program, you would want to
> signal each thread in an appropriate fashion so that it can finish
> up what it's doing and exit cleanly.

Aren't other threads terminated?

$ ruby -e 'Thread.new {sleep}; puts "done!"'
done!


But, as you say, cleanly stopping threads (perhaps using ensure blocks)
is a good idea:

$ ruby -e 'Thread.new {begin; sleep; ensure puts "thread done"; end};
puts "done!"'
done!
thread done

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