From: Alex McHale <lists@...>
Date: 2001-03-07T06:12:55+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:12182] Re: Nonblocking Read]

> IO#sysread is what you are looking for. 
> 
> -- Gotoken

This is what I had initially seen - but in my tests, it still *seems* to 
be blocking.  For example (this is not what will be the end product, this 
is a simple conversion of my current code to sysread, dysfunctional as it 
is).

Thread.start do
  print "Beginning\n"
  while player.connected and (incomm = player.socket.sysread 1)
    print "Inside loop\n"
    incomm.chop!
    player.inbuff= incomm
    sleep 0.1
    print "Done with loop\n"
  end
  print "Ending\n"
end

As I understand, if sysread does not block; once a user is connected, it 
should either print the "Inside loop" and "Done with loop" over and over 
*Or* bail immediately for lack of incoming data.   It does neither.  It 
processes incoming data exactly (except for the amount of data being 
dealt with, 1 byte versus 1 line) as though I still used readline.

Am I totally missing something here?

Thanks,
   Alex McHale