From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2005-08-10T15:56:20+09:00
Subject: Re: event driven framework for ruby

Tanaka Akira wrote:
> In article <42F996FE.3000702@path.berkeley.edu>,
>   Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@path.berkeley.edu> writes:
> 
> 
>>That post (148436) suggests that the native thread running the
>>interpreter is not blocked, and the only danger of blocking is in the
>>*ruby* thread reading the socket. Is that right? A bad UDP packet won't
>>stop other ruby threads?
> 
> 
> Ruby threads is not native threads.
> In [ruby-talk:148436], the entire process is not blocked because
> O_NONBLOCK is used.

Is there any disadvantage to setting O_NONBLOCK for all UDP packets, as
in [ruby-talk:148436] ? If not, I guess I'll just do that to be safe...

(I'm assuming the MAC layer on our radios doesn't do its own
checksumming. If it does, this might not be a problem.)

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