From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2005-08-09T06:34:31+09:00
Subject: Re: Threading+TCPServer issues on Win32

Simon Kr�ger wrote:
...
> require 'timeout'
> timeout(1){ puts gets }
> 
> this will never return (or throw the timeout exception) as
> long as you do not hit a key.
> Ruby has no native threads, it gets stuck on blocking system
> calls.

Is this only with a tty, and not a problem with sockets, files, etc.?

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