From: Gary Wright <gwtmp01@...>
Date: 2008-03-18T22:44:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Thread#raise, Thread#kill, and timeout.rb are unsafe


On Mar 18, 2008, at 1:19 AM, ara howard wrote:

> On Mar 17, 2008, at 10:30 AM, MenTaLguY wrote:
>
>> In a language with side-effects, I've become convinced that the  
>> only safe
>> way to handle asynchronous exceptions is for code to be  
>> uninterruptible by
>> default, and only explicitly allow interrupts at specific points  
>> (not broad
>> regions of code).
>>
>
> no doubt you've read it, but for posterity i'll post it here:
>
>   http://209.85.207.104/search?q=cache: 
> 2T61vSNQ4_EJ:home.pacbell.net/ouster/threads.pdf+%22why+threads+are 
> +a+bad+idea%22&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us&client=firefox-a
>

Here is a related talk/paper that offers a slightly different
perspective than Ousterhout: <http://swtch.com/~rsc/talks/threads07/>

Gary Wright