From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2005-03-12T06:19:30+09:00
Subject: Re: nonblock extension for win32?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Kelly [mailto:billk@cts.com] 
> Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 2:04 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: nonblock extension for win32?

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> There must be *some* way to do a non-blocking pipe read
> on windows...???  (I saw Nobu's io-wait module on RAA,
> that would add a #ready? method.  Even that might help; 
> although I don't know if io-wait works on Windows or not. The 
> download link seems to be broken...)

With the standard Ruby library?  Dunno.

However, perhaps win32-pipe can do what you want, though the API will be
different.  Oh, and ignore the docs that say asynchronous pipes aren't
supported.  Support was added in 0.1.0 - I need to update the docs.

Regards,

Dan