From: mrchameleon@... (Chris Reay)
Date: 2004-06-13T12:23:40+09:00
Subject: Re: oddities with select (do we need .to_bool?)

Ben Giddings <bg-rubytalk@infofiend.com> wrote in message news:<40C9E7F5.20607@infofiend.com>...
> Gennady wrote:
> > Ben Giddings wrote:
> > 
> >> I'm going to assume you really misunderstand and aren't trolling, 
> >> because even if you are trolling, maybe this explanation will come in 
> >> useful for someone else.
> >>

I replied to this a moment ago, and then did the ad hoc experiment
that I should have done before opening my virtual mouth earlier -
sorry 'bout that.

I tested this:

require "socket"

svr = TCPServer.new("localhost", 4567)
sock = svr.accept
printf "Accepted conn\n"
while true
  if select([sock], [], [], 3.0)
    printf("%s\n", sock.recv(256))
  end
end

I sent some "hello world" messages to it from a TCPSocket. It works
perfectly.

Sorry to appear tardy, tedious or trollish; but what gives?