From: Robert Klemme Date: 2004-08-30T01:35:28+09:00 Subject: Re: Blocking Problem "Zachary P. Landau" schrieb im Newsbeitrag news:20040828222848.GA7401@localhost... Hm, did you try to leave out *all* flags on File#open? Also, I'd check whether maybe the driver has a problem with non blocking IO. Also, sysread might be an option worth trying. That's all that comes to mind at the moment... Kind regards robert