From: William Morgan <wmorgan-ruby-core@...>
Date: 2005-02-16T07:56:48+09:00
Subject: Re: [bug?] curses + threads = non-blocking getch

Excerpts from Tanaka Akira's mail of 15 Feb 2005 (EST):
> It is not a non-blocking I/O.  It checks an available input before
> reading.  It can be re-implemented as follows:
> 
>   require "curses"
> 
>   class Curses::Window
>     def getch_nodelay
>       if IO.select([STDIN], nil, nil, 0)
>         getch
>       else
>         -1
>       end
>     end
>   end

Thank you, that works.

I think it's a little surprising that the behavior of getch is different
depending on whether there are threads or not, even if they've been
created elsewhere in the program / libraries. But if you don't consider
that a bug, that's fine.

Thanks for your help.

-- 
William <wmorgan-ruby-core@masanjin.net>