From: Yohanes Santoso <ysantoso-rubytalk@...>
Date: 2004-07-24T08:41:08+09:00
Subject: Re: [Q] Is there any way to do a non-blocking TCPSocket#recv?

"Warren Brown" <WBrown@isoft.com> writes:

> isn't any (instead of simply returning 0 bytes or nil). There is no
> #select method in any of the classes to test for data availability, so

IO.select.

Object begats IO. IO begats BasicSocket. BasicSocket begats
IPSocket. IPSocket begats TCPSocket. :)

So, there is a TCPSocket.select, but usually people use IO.select or
Kernel.select (all are just different names for the same thing).

YS.