From: Roger Pack <rogerpack2005@...>
Date: 2009-12-10T05:10:51+09:00
Subject: Re: Thread-local variables in Fibers


> Even though, Thread.current is the same in a fiber as in the thread
> invoking Fiber#resume.
> 
> irb(main):003:0> Fiber.new { Thread.current }.resume == Thread.current
> => true
> 
> Can anyone shed some light? I couldn't find any information in the
> documentation.

There was some discussion on this in core.  I can't remember if there 
was consensus or not, but one person suggested it may be "intended" so 
that you don't accidentally have fibers cross-using Thread.current[] for 
their store, which wouldn't be fiber specific.
-r
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