From: Urabe Shyouhei <shyouhei@...>
Date: 2011-08-02T08:30:49+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:38674] Re: [Ruby 1.9 - Bug #5138][Open] Add nonblocking IO that does not use exceptions for EOF and EWOULDBLOCK

(08/02/2011 08:14 AM), Eric Wong wrote:
> Urabe Shyouhei <shyouhei@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
>> So when you  do a read loop,  nothing bothers you, as long  as you use
>> readpartial.
> 
> That use of select + readpartial is unsafe.

Unsafe how?  readpatial works even without no data on a buffer.