stop() public

Stops execution of the current thread, putting it into a “sleep” state, and schedules execution of another thread.

a = Thread.new { print "a"; Thread.stop; print "c" }
Thread.pass
print "b"
a.run
a.join

produces:

abc
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October 3, 2011 - (>= v1_9_1_378)
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example will not work in 1.9+

Since 1.9 introduces native threads, we cannot assume the order of exectution and the example above is not thread safe and fails with a “deadlock detected (fatal)” error. Also Thread.pass is pointless in the context of native threads.

This will work as intended with native threads:

a = Thread.new { print "a"; Thread.stop; print "c" } 
sleep(0.1) until a.status == 'sleep'
print "b"
a.run
a.join