From: "christoph.heindl@..." <christoph.heindl@...>
Date: 2005-01-24T01:35:57+09:00
Subject: TCPSocket.new blocks other threads

hi,

when trying to connect to an ip address, from within a thread, that
does not exist, using TCPSocket.new(ip, port), it seems that other
threads are blocked until the connection has timed out. This hangs the
entire application for about 20secs.
However i have only noticed this behaviour in windows XP (propably
others too).

Any known workarounds?

I tried to find some information on nonblocking io (sockets) with ruby,
but i gave up,
after googling for around an hour..any links would be appreciated
christoph