From: ara howard <ara.t.howard@...>
Date: 2008-03-22T16:03:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Thread#raise, Thread#kill, and timeout.rb are unsafe


On Mar 22, 2008, at 12:04 AM, Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:

> 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

yes - lock only long enough to push the exception onto a stack/queue  
where it can be checked at an opportune moment - as opposed to async  
exceptions just bubbling in whenever.

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