From: "Avdi B. Grimm" <avdi@...>
Date: 2001-09-25T13:00:43+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:21653] Re: opening a named pipe?

On Mon, 2001-09-24 at 14:11, Carlos wrote:
> Maybe you can open the pipe non-blocking
> 
> 	File.open($STATUS_FIFO_NAME, File::RDONLY | File::NONBLOCK)
> 
> or something like that (I don't have the necessary documentation; I only saw
> this form of opening a file as an example of File.new in the Rubybook).

well, that did the trick. thanks!

-ABG