From: Ville Mattila <mulperi@...>
Date: 2005-05-24T14:05:17+09:00
Subject: Re: UDP select()/recvfrom() delay under Windows?

David Holroyd <ruby-talk@badgers-in-foil.co.uk> writes:
> When I run my test code in ruby 1.8.2 (2004-12-25) [i386-mswin32], I
> see, for example:
>
>
> I notice that there is a gap of some several seconds between select()
> completing, and recvfrom() completing -- I expected that, since select()
> reports data can be read, recvfrom() should not block.  Am I wrong?
>
> Also, I am fairly confident that there *is* data that could be read
> immediately, as I can see packets arriving (in Ethereal, running on the
> same machine as the above Ruby code).
>
>
> Any help (even a reply that this is off-topic, and that I don't
> understand socket programming) much appreciated.

 I think this will be fixed in 1.8.3 so you could try it. There is a 1.8.3rc1
 available at www.ruby-lang.org. You have to compile it your self though.

 - Ville