From: Heesob Park <phasis@...>
Date: 2009-06-30T11:46:21+09:00
Subject: Re: Cannot find in documentation anymore what tl is in 	Timeout::timeout(to) do |tl|

2009/6/30 Xeno Campanoli <xeno.campanoli@gmail.com>:
>  begin
>        Timeout::timeout(OverallTimeout) do |tl|
>            # Until I find out what this is, Forget it...
>            # No doc on tl anymore!
>            #puts "tl:  #{tl}"
>            probe_threads.each { |t|  t.join }
>            puts "done"
>        end
>    rescue Timeout::Error => eo
>        puts "#{eo.message}, exiting before joining all probe threads."
>    end
>
> Can anyone help?  Is it deprecated perhaps?
>
According to the document[1], tl is same to OverallTimeout.

BTW, I noticed the 1.8.6 document[2] is wrong in block parameter.
timeout(sec, exception=Error) {|if sec == nil or sec.zero?| ...}

I guess it is related to the bug in the source code of 1.8.6 and 1.8.7
The first line of method timeout
    return yield if sec == nil or sec.zero?
should be
    return yield(sec) if sec == nil or sec.zero?

[1] http://ruby-doc.org/core-1.9/classes/Timeout.html#M006441
[2] http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/timeout/rdoc/classes/Timeout.html#M004621

Regards,

Park Heesob