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wpaulson (Bill Paulson)

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  • Email: billpaulson@mac.com
  • Registered on: 06/08/2012
  • Last sign in: 09/03/2014

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09/03/2014

07:40 PM Ruby Bug #9115: Logger traps all exceptions; breaks Timeout
The source code for 2.1.2 doesn't seem to have changed: the LogDevice::write method still does a rescue Exception and ignores the result.
Our application ran into this problem when one thread raises an exception in another thread that's...
wpaulson (Bill Paulson)

07/31/2014

05:45 PM Ruby Bug #10104 (Rejected): Fileutils cp_r fails on sockets or fifes even if File.mknod and File.mkfifo are defined
Briefly, our code uses cp_r to copy a directory structure whose contents seem to occasionally have a Unix domain socket. This raises an exception, which seems reasonable enough. We consulted the code to see if there was a workaround, and... wpaulson (Bill Paulson)

06/08/2012

03:27 AM Ruby Bug #6558 (Rejected): Crash in garbage collection - using caller inside finalizer method
While debugging a hangup in a daemon, created the following program that crashes intermittently in 1.9.1 and 1.9.2 (don't have a current 1.9.3), and finishes in 1.8 (ruby 1.8.7 (2012-02-08 patchlevel 358) [i686-linux]):
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