From: MenTaLguY <mental@...>
Date: 2007-10-06T02:19:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Solaris, FastCGI, Apache, and "timeout.rb:52: [BUG] Segmentation fault"

On Sat, 6 Oct 2007 00:48:01 +0900, Trevor Wennblom <trevor@umn.edu> wrote:
> Just installed Ruby 1.8.6-p110. There seems to be a bug related to
> net/http, FastCGI, and Apache (1 or 2). I'm seeing this with a Rails-
> based application that has no problems with Mongrel, Webrick,
> Lighttpd, or Apache/CGI. This is on a Solaris environment, Ruby
> compiled with GCC.

I would strongly recommend against using timeout.rb: there is no
way to write robust code with it because it can interrupt the block at
any (i.e. the wrong) time, defeating normal cleanup/unwinding.

It shouldn't trigger a bug in the interpreter, granted, but it's
still risky no matter what you do.

-mental