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    The Oldest Bug In Ruby - Why Rack::Timeout Might Hose your Server ruby schneems.com
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    schneems avatar schneems 1 year ago | link

    Maybe should make this the oldest bug i’m aware of.

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      skade avatar skade 1 year ago | link

      It’s definitely one that sticks with you for a while.

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      Sinjo avatar Sinjo 1 year ago | link

      I think deadlines passed with every I/O (including lock acquisition) are the only way out of this.

      https://golang.org/pkg/context/ is the only time I’ve seen it supported at a language level.