From: Eric Wong <normalperson@...>
Date: 2013-07-27T08:14:59+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:56208] Re: [Ruby 1.9 - Bug #5138][Open] Add nonblocking IO that does not use exceptions for EOF and EWOULDBLOCK

Aaron Patterson <tenderlove@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> In the last developer meeting, matz suggested that the existing
> nonblocking IO functions take an extra option to specify whether or not
> exceptions should be raised.
> 
> https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/projects/ruby/wiki/DevelopersMeeting20130712#Non-blocking-reads-without-exceptions-Feature-5138
> 
> Something like this:
> 
>     chunk = @io.read_nonblock(BUFSIZE, exception: false)
> 
> I am happy with a solution like this.

OK, I am also happy (especially since small hashes are packed, now).
So the existing outbuf arg also becomes a keyword arg?

      chunk = @io.read_nonblock(BUFSIZE, exception: false, outbuf: string)