Yasushi Shoji <yashi / yashi.com> writes:

> in [ruby-dev:6289], Shugo Maeda suggested better name for recursive
> join error. I, today, happend to had this message and I felt it should
> be changed. (maybe too late for 1.6.x)
> 
> However, I don't have any good idea, so I decided to ask here.  does
> anyone has any idea?
> 
> here is one liner to produce the error message.
> 
> $ ruby -e "Thread.current.join"
> -e:1:in `join': recursive join (ThreadError)
>         from -e:1

If it occurs when a thread tries to join itself, how about:

 -e:1:in `join': thread tried to join itself (ThreadError)



Dave