From: "Jonas Pfenniger (zimbatm)" <jonas@...>
Date: 2011-01-21T01:39:45+09:00
Subject: Re: Thread#kill works as a script but not in irb

2011/1/14 Deepak Kannan <kannan.deepak@gmail.com>:
> hi,
> Thread#kill works as a script but not in irb
> I though that the problem is that irb evals the code. But manually
> evaling the code has the same problem.
>
> Code:
> t = Thread.new { kill }
> puts t.inspect
>
> # irb eval's code. but then this works as a script but does not work in
> irb
> # eval "t = Thread.new { kill }; puts t.inspect"
>
> Output:
> runs successfully when run as a script ie. ruby <filename>
> => #<Thread:0x1dc5090 dead>
>
> But running it on irb gives an error
>> load '/tmp/baz.rb'
> => #<Thread:0x2813678 dead>
> IRB::NoSuchJob: No such job(#<Thread:0x243e278>).
> from :0
>
> PS: https://gist.github.com/779402
>
> regards,
> deepak

Yeah it looks like a 1.8 issue. 1.9.2 works fine though.