From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2008-03-22T15:04:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Thread#raise, Thread#kill, and timeout.rb are unsafe

ara howard 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.

Presumably by "critical section" you mean "locking on as narrow a lock 
as possible so as not to stop the whole freaking world because one 
thread wants to send an event to another". critical= is the devil.

- Charlie