From: "Hal E. Fulton" <hal9000@...>
Date: 2001-06-17T04:22:35+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:16543] Re: alarm()

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <pit@capitain.de>
To: ruby-talk ML <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 1:45 AM
Subject: [ruby-talk:16531] Re: alarm()


> FYI, I tried Dave's example on Win NT and ruby 1.6.2 (2000-12-18) 
> [i386-cygwin]. It works almost as expected, but when I press a key 
> in the first two seconds and then wait, the gets is not interrupted at 
> all.

I have seen this same behavior in the past.

I am not sure whether it is a bug or an unavoidable consequence
of the implementation of Ruby I/O on Windows.

Hal