From: Erik Veenstra <erikveen@...>
Date: 2007-02-16T18:05:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Thread.current.parent and Thread.current.ancestors

It doesn't work with Thread#start (==fork)...

Thread#start doesn't reuse Thread.new. Neither does
rb_thread_create(), which is used in e.g. TK.

All three methods (new, start/fork and rb_thread_create()) come
together in rb_thread_alloc(). That's the place where the
parent should be set. The problem is that you can't redefine
rb_thread_alloc() in Ruby... ;[

I really like this Thread.current.parent or Thread.parent.
There's at least one place where I really, really need it
myself... Something for Ruby 1.8.6?... ;]

gegroet,
Erik V. - http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/