From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-05-09T20:55:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Thread#join doesn't accept a timeout?

Hi,

At Thu, 9 May 2002 19:23:47 +0900,
Jean-Hugues ROBERT wrote:
> > >|Ideally, Thread#join would look something like this:
> > >|
> > >|  def join(timeout = nil)
> > >|    ...
> > >|  end
> > >|
> > >|timeout = nil means wait forever, timeout = 0 means
> > >|don't wait, and timeout >0 means wait that many
> > >|milliseconds.
> 
> I guess timeout should be in seconds, as in sleep(), shouldn't it ?

Agreed.  And also in IO.select.

# I'd posted a patch implemented it to ruby-core, but failed.

-- 
Nobu Nakada