From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-07-28T10:29:55+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18680] Re: Non-blocking socket use in threads?

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:18664] Re: Non-blocking socket use in threads?"
    on 01/07/28, Steven Grady <grady@xcf.berkeley.edu> writes:

|Unfortunately (as I reported in Bug 112 at the Ruby Bug Tracking
|System), IO#eof is still blocking, e.g.:

That's different issue.  Unfortunately, IO#eof does block the current
thread, it does not block other threads.  I'm still not sure if I
should change (or how I should change) the IO#eof semantic, that
inherited from Perl.

 % perl -e 'open(F, "sleep 2|"); print "a\n"; eof(F); print "b\n"'

							matz.