From: Jonathan Gillette <jonathan@...>
Date: 2002-06-25T01:35:28+09:00
Subject: Re: detecting a socket dropping in multi-threaded app

Yep.  That's a reasonable idea.  As long as you're sure the user's Thread dies, this should work.

Firestone, Mark - Technical Support (mark.firestone@gossgraphic.co.uk) wrote:
> How about this?  My @who data structure is shared with a mutex between the
> threads.  It keeps a list of the thread id with each person's username and
> whatever who is logged on.  When someone hangs up, Ruby just kills the
> thread (I verified this with an experiment last night...)
> 
> I write a thread that wakes up every so often and checks Thread.current, and
> compares that list with the list in @who, and if someone is missing from
> Thread.current, zaps them from the list.
> 
> Is this a reasonable idea?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mark

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Jonathan Gillette
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