Comment 19 for bug 520715

I had a quick look at Timeout. The problem is there in:

      x = Thread.current
      y = Thread.start {
        sleep sec
        x.raise exception, "execution expired" if x.alive?
      }

and Thread x.status returns a sleep state even after the test execs complete, which seems pretty fundamentally broken... I'll have a look and see if I can find a dupe

confirmed on stock Lucid and Debian testing.