From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu.nokada@...>
Date: 2002-05-10T06:51:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Thread#join doesn't accept a timeout?

Hi,

At Fri, 10 May 2002 00:00:43 +0900,
Dossy wrote:
> > > Thanks for the patch!  Until it makes its way into stable, or
> > > until I get motivated to try building from CVS, I'll have to
> > > live with my work-around using pipes and IO#select to fake it.
> > 
> > Or you may try timeout.rb.
> 
> Excellent suggestion.  I was just trying to avoid creating
> even more threads than I already am -- what I'll probably do
> is use the technique from timeout.rb (raising an exception)
> instead of using a pipe and sleeping on I/O.

I added thread.rb to Ruby Shim, so you can use it in 1.6 too.

-- 
Nobu Nakada