From: MenTaLguY <mental@...>
Date: 2008-03-19T06:22:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Thread#raise, Thread#kill, and timeout.rb are unsafe

On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 04:13:19 +0900, ara howard <ara.t.howard@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Okay.  I'd thought you were suggesting an API rather than illustrating
an idea.

-mental