From: Eric Armstrong <Eric.Armstrong@...>
Date: 2006-08-01T12:31:43+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby threads? the point?

Francis Cianfrocca wrote:
> On 7/29/06, Eric Armstrong <Eric.Armstrong@sun.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Nice! Didn't know about that kbhit.
>> That has promise. I wonder if there is a
>> multi-platform version of that API?
> 
> 
> What happens if you just use select to read the file descriptor associated
> with stdin? On Windows iirc, this descriptor is already raw. For Solaris 
> etc
> you can just make it raw with termio calls.
> 
Sounds promising. Do you have a bit of code
to go with the suggestion, perchance?
(I'm having a bit of trouble filling in the blanks.)