ara.t.howard wrote:
>  i just pushed out 0.0.2 and it just lets the thread die rather that 
>  self-destructing.  see how that works...

I fixed in JRuby just now (Thread#kill does an implicit join in JRuby to 
make sure the thread dies...but if target == caller it was still trying 
to join itself in a weird way) but basically breaking out of the loop 
instead of Thread#exit solved it. Your 0.0.2 change is probably equivalent.

- Charlie