From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2008-03-19T02:41:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Thread#raise, Thread#kill, and timeout.rb are unsafe

ara howard wrote:
> 
> On Mar 14, 2008, at 8:42 AM, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
> 
>> Probably.  Does anyone have any idea?
> 
> 
> Thread.current.raises do |exception|
>   queue.push exception
> end
> 
> ....
> 
> even_loop do
>   stuff
>   if exception = queue.pop
>     ...
>   end
> end
> 
> seems like it would address a ton of issued without overly complicating 
> ruby's internals - just provide an 'on raise' handler.

Is it possible to integrate this with IO#select, so a thread can handle 
an exception sent to it while waiting on io?

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