From: Guillaume Marcais <guslist@...>
Date: 2005-06-29T03:49:16+09:00
Subject: Re: C-like ugliness of Kernel#select

On Wed, 2005-06-29 at 03:16 +0900, C Erler wrote:
> IO has such methods as #closed? and #eof? to find much-needed information 
> about IO status, but it doesn't have anything like #read_ready? or 
> #write_ready? that would be useful for anyone not wanting blocking IO. The 
> only way to do this is with the C-like ugly-hackishness that is 
> Kernel#select.

Look in RAA for io-wait.

> Does anyone have a good argument for not adding a few more methods to IO in 
> the Ruby distribution itself ? Does anybody think it would be a good idea to 
> submit this as an RCR ?

It could be useful.

>  If those are added, would we be able to remove 
> Kernel#select in the next "we don't care about backward compatibility" Ruby 
> version ?

No. Kernel#select would still be useful to wait on many IO streams at
once.

Guillaume.