From: Francis Cianfrocca <garbagecat10@...>
Date: 2006-09-16T23:42:48+09:00
Subject: Re: Nested threading? implications to timeout()

------=_Part_31974_28593863.1158417710498
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline

On 9/15/06, Geff Geff <boing@boing.com> wrote:
>
>  vast amount of digging through google and writing test code, I came
> across the following interesting behavior.  It seems that threads do not
> have a parent child relationships.  So when one kills a thread, ruby
> doesn't actually kill any threads that were started inside that thread.
> To clarify, consider the following:


Threads don't have any kind of parent-child relationship, as processes do.
None of the threading models that have seen wide use have a feature like
this. What was your basis for thinking that they do?

------=_Part_31974_28593863.1158417710498--