From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...>
Date: 2008-03-20T02:56:20+09:00
Subject: Re: Thread#raise, Thread#kill, and timeout.rb are unsafe

On 18/03/2008, ara howard <ara.t.howard@gmail.com> 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

Whatever it's supposed to be the link does not work for me.

Thanks

Michal