From: Caleb Clausen <vikkous@...>
Date: 2009-05-29T02:56:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Running code at a certain time?

On 5/28/09, Charles Oliver Nutter <charles.nutter@sun.com> wrote:
> 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.

I thought you'd made some long blog post proving how it's impossible
to Thread#raise perfectly reliably in JRuby. I may be confused. I'm
glad to hear that it does work and I apologize for spreading
misinformation.