From: Chris Eppstein <chriseppstein@...>
Date: 2009-08-20T17:20:13+09:00
Subject: API Change to Timeout?

This commit:

http://github.com/FooBarWidget/rubyenterpriseedition/commit/00a8c1b356b482b2b34931344e747062a8d07795

Breaks the documented API of the timeout function by changing the
default exception class raised from Timeout::Error to
Timeout::ExitException.

I spent a fair bit of time diagnosing this issue today as it was
causing misbehavior in memcache-client. As a work-around, I am using a
modified version of memcache-client that specifies Timeout::Error as
the timeout
exception class explicitly, but it would be great to fix this as I'm
sure lots of libraries expect Timeout::Error.

Thanks,
Chris Eppstein

P.S. I originally reported this issue to the Phusion guys, but they
directed me here.