From: Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@...>
Date: 2009-05-29T02:21:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Running code at a certain time?

Caleb Clausen wrote:
> Timeout uses Thread#raise, which I think is not reliable on JRuby or
> other implementations that use native threads.

It should be reliable, and in fact we reimplemented Timeout in Java to 
reduce the cost almost down to zero. I don't like that things like raise 
and kill and Timeout are used, but we've made sure they work well when 
they are.

> PS: does anyone know why Timeout::Error < Interrupt ? Interrupt is for
> ^C... why would you want timeouts to be handled like ^C?

I do not.

- Charlie