Method: Thread#status

Defined in:

thread.c

#status ⇒ String, ...

Returns the status of thr.

"sleep"

Returned if this thread is sleeping or waiting on I/O

"run"

When this thread is executing

"aborting"

If this thread is aborting

false

When this thread is terminated normally

nil

If terminated with an exception.

a = Thread.new { raise("die now") }
b = Thread.new { Thread.stop }
c = Thread.new { Thread.exit }
d = Thread.new { sleep }
d.kill                  #=> #<Thread:0x401b3678 aborting>
a.status                #=> nil
b.status                #=> "sleep"
c.status                #=> false
d.status                #=> "aborting"
Thread.current.status   #=> "run"

See also the instance methods #alive? and #stop?

Returns:

• (String, false, nil)

# File 'thread.c', line 3380

static VALUE
rb_thread_status(VALUE thread)
{
    rb_thread_t *target_th = rb_thread_ptr(thread);

    if (rb_threadptr_dead(target_th)) {
        if (!NIL_P(target_th->ec->errinfo) &&
            !FIXNUM_P(target_th->ec->errinfo)) {
            return Qnil;
        }
        else {
            return Qfalse;
        }
    }
    else {
        return rb_str_new2(thread_status_name(target_th, FALSE));
    }
}