From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2008-03-15T11:29:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Thread#raise, Thread#kill, and timeout.rb are unsafe

Hi,

In message "Re: Thread#raise, Thread#kill, and timeout.rb are unsafe"
    on Sat, 15 Mar 2008 02:48:33 +0900, Tanaka Akira <akr@fsij.org> writes:

|But Charles's "safe" is for application.  acquired lock
|should be released later, etc.

I know.

|Your "safe" is not enough for application.
|
|We need a mechanism to delay asynchronous exceptions until a
|safe point.

Hmm.

|I think the safe points declaration mechanism should able to
|define safe points for each exception and easy to handle
|blocking operations without race conditions.

What should safe point declaration mechanism look like?

							matz.