PHWinfo - Afficher un message - Thread#raise, Thread#kill, and timeout.rb are unsafe

14/03/2008, 18h00

Charles Oliver Nutter wrote:
> I wrote up an article on Thread#raise, Thread#kill, and timeout.rb that
> I hope can start making the rounds. Long story short, neither
> Thread#raise nor Thread#kill is safe to use, and as a result all
> libraries that call them are also unsafe (including timeout.rb, net/*,
> and many other libraries in the wider world).
>
> Have a look, add comments, discuss. Hopefully we can find a way to fix
> this, because it's going to hold Ruby back until we do.
>
> http://headius.blogspot.com/2008/02/...timeoutrb.html
>
> - Charlie

It was the problems with timeout that make me wish we had an
EnsureCritical (an Ensure that gets Thread.critical=true set to it
before entering it), so that timeouts can end properly.
Just my $.02
--
Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

14/03/2008, 18h00	#5
Roger Pack Messages: n/a Hébergeur:	Re: Thread#raise, Thread#kill, and timeout.rb are unsafe Charles Oliver Nutter wrote: > I wrote up an article on Thread#raise, Thread#kill, and timeout.rb that > I hope can start making the rounds. Long story short, neither > Thread#raise nor Thread#kill is safe to use, and as a result all > libraries that call them are also unsafe (including timeout.rb, net/*, > and many other libraries in the wider world). > > Have a look, add comments, discuss. Hopefully we can find a way to fix > this, because it's going to hold Ruby back until we do. > > http://headius.blogspot.com/2008/02/...timeoutrb.html > > - Charlie It was the problems with timeout that make me wish we had an EnsureCritical (an Ensure that gets Thread.critical=true set to it before entering it), so that timeouts can end properly. Just my $.02 -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.