From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2006-08-21T20:50:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Threads and fake forking

Eric Hodel <drbrain@segment7.net> writes:

> On Aug 20, 2006, at 3:11 PM, Sander Land wrote:
>
>> On 8/20/06, Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Anyone have a cool explanation?
>>
>> Ruby errors in a thread often don't show up.
>>
>> Thread.new { cc.call(nil) rescue $stderr << $!.inspect }
>> => #<RuntimeError: continuation called across threads>
>>
>> Neat idea btw, too bad it doesn't work.
>
> Add Thread.abort_on_exception = true

Why is this not set by default, btw?  Tracking such bugs down is a
major annoyance.

> Eric Hodel - drbrain@segment7.net - http://blog.segment7.net
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