From: Ben Giddings <bg-rubytalk@...>
Date: 2004-06-09T08:15:50+09:00
Subject: oddities with select

I'm trying to use Ruby to talk to an network application, and noticed 
something odd.  Using ethereal, I can see that the server is returning a 
newline to the client, however my Ruby code, calling select([socket], 
[], [], 0.1) repeatedly for 5 seconds never seems to know that there's 
data to be read.

I've tried to make sure the socket is non-blocking with:

@sock.fcntl(Fcntl::F_SETFL, Fcntl::O_NONBLOCK)

But that seems to have no effect.

Is there something I'm missing?

I haven't tried the same code in another language to see if the problem 
may be there.  At the moment though, this seems broken.

Any ideas?

Ben