From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2008-07-15T02:36:41+09:00
Subject: Re: bug involving condition variables

Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> At Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:12:16 +0900,
> Joel VanderWerf wrote in [ruby-talk:308103]:
>> The following code generates a ThreadError ("not owner", raised in 
>> unlock_mutex_inner()). However, the ThreadError never gets reported at 
>> the top level (even though my code is re-raising it and 
>> Thread.abort_on_exception = true). A ThreadError that I raise directly 
>> gets reported normally.
>>
>> For 1.8.6-p114 (Linux), the output is:
>>
>> #<ThreadError: not owner>
> 
> It seems like a bug of ext/thread in 1.8.6, and 1.8.7 doesn't
> have it.

I filed a bug report (#275), in case this can be fixed in 1.8.6 for 
those of us who are timid about 1.8.7.

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