From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-02-27T10:27:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Thread.stop

Hi,

In message "Re: Thread.stop"
    on 03/02/27, Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@PATH.Berkeley.EDU> writes:

|> None from Ruby level, except for raising exception or signal from
|> outside.  I need further information to identify the problem.
|
|Are you saying that if a thread has stopped (waiting for a lock on a 
|semaphore of some kind) then an exception in another thread or a signal 
|received by the process might wake it up?

I'm saying that if a thread has stopped (waiting for a lock on a
semaphore of some kind) then other thread post an exception to the
thread by using Thread#raise or a signal received by the process might
wake it up.

							matz.