From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2001-01-23T14:46:08+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:9750] Threads and I/O

Is there any way for the main thread to kill a thread
that is doing, e.g., a gets?

Crude example below.

Thanks,
Hal 


str = nil
thr = Thread.new { str = gets }

sleep 5
# Tired of waiting!
thr.kill
# str is nil now?