From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...17n.org>
Date: 2005-09-27T12:08:48+09:00
Subject: Re: IO#getc behavior

In article <000701c5c27a$d77058b0$0200000a@agamemnon>,
  "Jon A. Lambert" <jlsysinc@alltel.net> writes:

> However I ran this under the msvc version of windows and what happens is 
> select() returns a ready state for $stdin whether a key is hit or not. 
> Then getc() blocks? because there's nothing yet to be gotten.  Worse no I/O 
> seems to be going on until the user hits the return key and then whammo I 
> see either the end result of the loops or it appears more likely getc blocks 
> internally under cover until it sees a CR in the stream.
>
> Is there a workaround?

I heard Ruby 1.9 is improved recently.  See [ruby-talk:156899].
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Tanaka Akira