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Issue #15644 has been updated by jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans).

Assignee set to keiju (Keiju Ishitsuka)
Status changed from Open to Assigned

I agree this is a bug that should be fixed.  I have submitted a pull request to fix it: https://github.com/ruby/thwait/pull/1

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Bug #15644: ThreadsWait problems with Thread#report_on_exception
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/15644#change-82123

* Author: kke (Kimmo Lehto)
* Status: Assigned
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: keiju (Keiju Ishitsuka)
* Target version: 
* ruby -v: ruby 2.6.1p33 (2019-01-30 revision 66950) [x86_64-darwin18]
* Backport: 2.4: UNKNOWN, 2.5: UNKNOWN, 2.6: UNKNOWN
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Using ThreadsWait with Thread.report_on_exception is confusing.

ThreadsWait spawns a new thread for waiting on a thread:

```
  # thwait.rb:87
  def join_nowait(*threads)
    threads.flatten!
    @threads.concat threads
    for th in threads
      Thread.start(th) do |t|
        begin
          t.join
        ensure
          @wait_queue.push t
        end
      end
    end
  end
```

The `t.join` in `ThreadsWait` will re-raise the exceptions that happen in the thread being waited on.

If the thread being waited on was using `report_on_exception = false`, the wait thread will report the exception and the `report_on_exception = false` effectively did nothing, as you still got an exception report. 

If the thread was using `report_on_exception = true`, both threads will report the exception, so you get it twice.

I think this could be fixed by always setting `report_on_exception = false` for the wait thread.

# Example 1

```
require 'thwait'

thread = Thread.new do
  Thread.current.report_on_exception = false
  sleep 1
  raise "Foo"
end

ThreadsWait.all_waits(thread) do |terminated_thread|
  puts "Thread #{terminated_thread} terminated"
end
```

## Expected result

No exception reports

## Actual result

The wait thread will report the exception:

```
#<Thread:0x00007fa57d092d68@/Users/user/.rbenv/versions/2.6.1/lib/ruby/2.6.0/thwait.rb:91 run> terminated with exception (report_on_exception is true):
```


# Example 2

```
require 'thwait'

thread = Thread.new do
  sleep 1
  raise "Foo"
end

ThreadsWait.all_waits(thread) do |terminated_thread|
  puts "Thread #{terminated_thread} terminated"
end
```

## Expected result

One exception report

## Actual result

Two exception reports:

```
#<Thread:[email protected]:3 run> terminated with exception (report_on_exception is true):
#<Thread:0x00007f9f830530a0@/Users/user/.rbenv/versions/2.6.1/lib/ruby/2.6.0/thwait.rb:91 run> terminated with exception (report_on_exception is true):
Traceback (most recent call last):
```





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