------ art_31974_28593863.1158417710498 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 9/15/06, Geff Geff <boing / boing.com> wrote: > > vast amount of digging through google and writing test code, I came > across the following interesting behavior. It seems that threads do not > have a parent child relationships. So when one kills a thread, ruby > doesn't actually kill any threads that were started inside that thread. > To clarify, consider the following: Threads don't have any kind of parent-child relationship, as processes do. None of the threading models that have seen wide use have a feature like this. What was your basis for thinking that they do? ------ art_31974_28593863.1158417710498--