From: James Britt <james_b@...>
Date: 2006-03-24T05:51:26+09:00
Subject: Re: unhandled exception in thread causes ruby to lose control

Shea Martin wrote:
> 
> <code>
> Thread.abort_on_exception = true
> 
> t = Thread.new{
>   puts "here"
>   raise "exception"
> }
> 
> sleep 3
> puts "t thread is #{t.alive?}"
> 
> exit 0
> </code>
> 
> The above code will cause ruby to eatup 100% cpu, for an infinite amount 
> of time on win32.  

WinXP pro, SP2: Code works just fine.

d:\temp>tex.rb
here
d:/temp/tex.rb:5: exception (RuntimeError)
         from d:/temp/tex.rb:3

d:\temp>


James