From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2005-09-05T10:11:24+09:00
Subject: Re: Nonblocking and/or win32  (was: Re: [ANN] EventLoop 0.0.20050825.1600)

From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov>

>    [ahoward@localhost ~]$ strace ruby a.rb 2>&1
>    ...
>    ...
>    ...
>    read(3
> 
> 
> and, from io.c:
[...]
>        ch = getc(fptr->f);          // look here !!!
[...]
> anyhow... it sure makes sense that it'd block though...

Thanks, Ara  !

Guess I would have expected it just to do the 

if (feof(fptr->f)) return Qtrue;

part...


I've changed my program to infer EOF when gets() returns
nil.  I no longer call #eof? because although it admittedly
looks pretty darned thorough, it's no good for me to block.


Thanks again,

Regards,

Bill