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On 9/15/06, Geff Geff <boing / boing.com> wrote:
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>  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?

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