From: MenTaLguY <mental@...>
Date: 2008-03-25T01:26:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Thread#raise, Thread#kill, and timeout.rb are unsafe

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:22:35 +0900, Tanaka Akira <akr@fsij.org> wrote:
> So I think asynchronous events should be used only for
> termination.  This is why I think exception on blocking
> operation is tolerable.

I think I agree.  However, that still leaves us with timeouts, which
are sometimes done for operations that will be retried in the future,
so data loss is not acceptable there.

Won't we also need to augment the existing stdlib APIs to allow the
specification of timeouts for any blocking operations that can't
already be done with non-blocking and select?

-mental