Hi,

In message "Re: Thread#kill! patch"
    on Fri, 1 Sep 2006 09:19:42 +0900, why the lucky stiff <ruby-core / whytheluckystiff.net> writes:

|Wow, MenTaLguY has worked up a patch[1] to ruby-1.8.5 and ruby_1_8 branch for
|Thread#kill!.  This method really kills a thread, circumventing ensure.

Is it possible for you to patch both HEAD and ruby_1_8?

							matz.