From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2008-03-19T10:04:10+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 Tue, 18 Mar 2008 23:02:24 +0900, Tanaka Akira <akr@fsij.org> writes:

|> This did have a few weird side-effects though.  For example, running a  
|> complex regex would shutoff signal handling for the duration.  That  
|> meant you could no longer timeout a regex.
|
|Ruby already defer signal handling same as Perl.

1.8 regexp does check interrupts during match, 1.9 doesn't check (yet).

							matz.