[MacRuby] #176: timeout fails to raise a Timeout::Error

[MacRuby]

#176: timeout fails to raise a Timeout::Error
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 Reporter:  acangiano@…          |       Owner:  lsansonetti@…        
     Type:  defect               |      Status:  new                  
 Priority:  major                |   Milestone:                       
Component:  MacRuby              |    Keywords:                       
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Comment(by lsansonetti@…):

 I think case 3 is unfixable unless we modify the way {{{1+1 while true}}}
 is compiled. There is no way to "kill" this expression since it never
 enters a pthread cancelation point. So in the current context,
 Thread#raise cannot be deterministic in MacRuby. I am not sure this is
 important (I think Thread#raise should never be used anyways).

 If we can make timeout.rb work for most of the case (at least not crash)
 it's good enough for now, I think.

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Ticket URL: <http://www.macruby.org/trac/ticket/176#comment:8>
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