From: timsuth@... (Tim Sutherland)
Date: 2004-06-17T09:18:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Bidirectional named pipes on Linux

In article <5d4c612404061616185967e8c6@mail.gmail.com>, Lennon Day-Reynolds
wrote:
>In C, you'd use something like this:
>
>| fcntl(fd, F_SETFL, 
>|          fcntl(fd, F_GETFL) &
>|          ~O_NONBLOCK);
>
>In Ruby, the following:
>
>| require 'io/nonblock'
>| fh = open('/tmp/myfifo')
>| fh.nonblock = false
>
>..which just hides the fcntl call and nasty constants in a nicer
>interface. On my test machine, though, it looks like the FIFO opens in
>blocking mode by default, at least if opened for writing.

Do you meah

  fh.nonblock = true

perhaps :-)