From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2009-02-24T09:21:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Thread Deadlock on Ruby 1.8.7

Jayce Meade wrote:
> when 'quit'
>   say(c, 'Exiting....')
>   @joined.each { |chan| log(chan, "\n----- Left #{chan} at #{Time.now.strftime("%I:%M:%S %p")} (Quit command was used) -----\n")} # < Logs the quit to the chatroom logs.
>   self.disconnect() # < Disconnects from chatroom.
>   Thread.current["exitstatus"] = 0 # < Sets the exitstatus for 0 since this is a normal exit.
>   Thread.stop # < Kills the thread, if I did it right, the program dies when this is executed.
>   true
> 
> That's the code used to close the main program, and it dies on Thread.stop.

Given your description, wouldn't Thread.exit be the right method, not 
Thread.stop ?

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