How about this?  My @who data structure is shared with a mutex between the
threads.  It keeps a list of the thread id with each person's username and
whatever who is logged on.  When someone hangs up, Ruby just kills the
thread (I verified this with an experiment last night...)

I write a thread that wakes up every so often and checks Thread.current, and
compares that list with the list in @who, and if someone is missing from
Thread.current, zaps them from the list.

Is this a reasonable idea?

Thanks,

Mark

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Jonathan Gillette [SMTP:jonathan / inetz.com]
> Sent:	21 June 2002 21:56
> To:	ruby-talk / ruby-lang.org
> Subject:	Re: detecting a socket dropping in multi-threaded app
> 
> 
> Yeah, I forgot your client would be a simple telnet session.  In the same
> vein as a ping, you could have a thread watching for inactive threads and
> shutting them down.  So you could keep a timestamp on the last time a
> thread read a byte and shutdown the thread if too much time elapsed.  In
> my Ruby socket servers, I tend to stay away from trying to catch all the
> possible exceptions and just keep a single thread that monitors the
> others.  It's just less of a headache.  I guess I hate having to worry
> about missing an exception.
> 
> -- 
> 
> Jonathan Gillette
> iNetZ Media
> 
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