From: "Michael P. Soulier" <msoulier@...>
Date: 2006-09-25T20:23:44+09:00
Subject: Re: undefined method `recvfrom_nonblock'

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On 25/09/06 Francis Cianfrocca said:

> That's what I expected. Update Ruby, get past the documentation issue, and
> you should be ok with nonblocking i/o. In regard to timing, I would use
> select rather than SIGALRM.

I find it odd that there are multiple released 1.8.4s. That's never happened
with any other language that I use.

I ended up using Timeout::timeout to timeout my recvfrom call. You're right,
in general, select/poll would be better.

Mike
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