From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2007-02-16T15:55:38+09:00
Subject: Thread.current.parent and Thread.current.ancestors


can anyone see issues with this:

harp:~ > cat a.rb
class Thread
   class << self
     alias_method "__new__", "new"

     def new *a, &b
       parent = Thread.current

       __new__(*a) do |*a|
         Thread.current.parent = parent
         b.call *a
       end
     end

   end

   def parent
     self['parent']
   end

   def parent= parent
     self['parent'] = parent
   end

   def ancestors
     list = [t = self]
     while((t = t.parent))
       list << t
     end
     list
   end
end

Thread.new{ Thread.new{ Thread.new{ sleep 2; p Thread.current.ancestors } } }

STDIN.gets


harp:~ > ruby a.rb
[#<Thread:0xb75d2264 run>, #<Thread:0xb75d2354 dead>, #<Thread:0xb75d2444 dead>, #<Thread:0xb75df900 sleep>]


it's hard to wrap my head around, but even GC seems like it'd be fine - the
child, upon death, will allow the parent to be freed, and so on.

-a
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