From: Dossy Date: 2002-05-09T21:55:06+09:00 Subject: Re: Thread#join doesn't accept a timeout? On 2002.05.09, Jean-Hugues ROBERT wrote: > > I guess timeout should be in seconds, as in sleep(), shouldn't it ? On 2002.05.09, nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote: > Agreed. And also in IO.select. But, it still gives millisecond precision, right? > # I'd posted a patch implemented it to ruby-core, but failed. Wow, that was fast! :-) Of course, since I'm using stable (both on mswin32 and linux) I won't see this new change for a while, huh? Glad to see it make its way into the core, though! Non-blocking Thread#join is definitely a good thing ... -- Dossy -- Dossy Shiobara mail: dossy@panoptic.com Panoptic Computer Network web: http://www.panoptic.com/ "He realized the fastest way to change is to laugh at your own folly -- then you can let go and quickly move on." (p. 70)