From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2006-02-19T08:33:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Hello, and a question about finding a defined Class from C

Jacob Repp wrote:
> I followed up and it seems that you're right, I had assumed the recv
> was blocking the whole process but it was not. Based on what I've seen
> after some further testing it seems that 'Kernel#gets' and
> 'Socket#connect' can both block the process. Is this correct?

Yes, unfortunately, AFAIK. These are known problems on windows.

Search for "gets windows block sockets" on comp.lang.ruby:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.ruby/search?group=comp.lang.ruby&q=gets+windows+block+sockets&qt_g=1&searchnow=Search+this+group

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