From: Yohanes Santoso <ysantoso-rubytalk@...>
Date: 2004-07-29T19:03:43+09:00
Subject: Re: IO::Reactor on a disk file?

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Lloyd Zusman <ljz@asfast.com> writes:

> to `select' on a Unix system?  I'm using FreeBSD, if that makes any

select() is not particularly useful in dealing with disk i/o. It
always indicates readiness for any disk i/o. AFAIK, most unix-like
OSes share this behaviour. I seem to remember that only some unix-like
OSes in 1970-1980 that do not.

YS.

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