From: Eric Wong <normalperson@...>
Date: 2011-03-30T03:24:20+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:35587] Re: [Ruby 1.9 - Feature #4531][Open] [PATCH	0/7] use poll() instead of select() in certain cases

Eric Wong <normalperson@yhbt.net> wrote:
> On a related note:
> 
>   Ruby also still needlessly checks for read/writability with select()[2]
>   even though though we have support for blocking regions.   I think
>   that is safe to remove if we check return values with
>   rb_io_wait_{read,writ}able().  One part of
>   http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/4535 does exactly this but I have
>   another patch to kill more unnecessary select() calls that aren't
>   bugs, just extra code/syscalls.

Just opened this one: http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/4538

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Eric Wong