From: ara howard <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-03-19T04:13:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Thread#raise, Thread#kill, and timeout.rb are unsafe


On Mar 18, 2008, at 11:52 AM, MenTaLguY wrote:

> I think the only way around this is for the receiving thread to
> explicitly choose moments when it wants to receive any pending
> asynchronous exceptions.  Can you think of another way?



perhaps i wasn't being clear.  that's exactly what i was showing - a  
handler that gets called (critical section of course) which simply  
enques the exception.  then the thread itself must check for these at  
the 'right' moment.


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