* lib/timeout.rb: join the background thread to make sure it is dead.

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@14243 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/lib/timeout.rb b/lib/timeout.rb
index 19045d9491..d68312cf6d 100644
--- a/lib/timeout.rb
+++ b/lib/timeout.rb
@@ -45,7 +45,10 @@ module Timeout
       }
       return yield(sec)
     ensure
-      y.kill if y and y.alive?
+      if y and y.alive?
+        y.kill 
+        y.join # make sure y is dead.
+      end
     end
   end