From: Erik Veenstra <erikveen@...>
Date: 2007-06-30T17:41:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Threads issue.

Joining a stopped thread causes a deadlock.

Consider this deadlocking code:

 Thread.fork do
   Thread.stop
 end.join

On the other hand, the following code does work:

 Thread.fork do
   Thread.stop
 end.run.join

To prove that Thread.stop was really executed, I ran both
scripts with a trace:

 http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/tmp/code1.trace.png
 http://www.erikveen.dds.nl/tmp/code2.trace.png

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