From: Kent Sibilev <ksibilev@...>
Date: 2004-07-29T23:55:58+09:00
Subject: Re: IO issues: forking, select, and duplexing

I guess it's already supported. Check out io.c rb_io_get_io() function.

Cheers,
Kent.

On Jul 29, 2004, at 9:31 AM, Ara.T.Howard wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:
>
>> If your IO-like object contains a reference to a real IO object that  
>> can be
>> a target of select, you can call select on the IO-like object by just  
>> adding
>> "to_io" method that returns real IO object.
>
> you mean this will (is) supported?
>
>   class Klass
>     def initialize path
>       @io = open path
>     end
>     def to_io
>       @io
>     end
>   end
>
> cool.
>
> can you give a quick brain dump of other to_XXX method we might want  
> to know
> about?
>
> kind regards.
>
> -a
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