From: Rik Hemsley Date: 2001-11-05T20:07:30+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:24385] Re: Problem with readline and select #if Rik Hemsley > Some kind of clash between readline and IO.pipe/select ? BTW, I worked around it by using separate processes. Once I realised that it wasn't using native threads, I decided this was going to have to be done using processes anyway, as if one thread is blocked for too long, it causes problems (stuttering audio output.) That's unless Ruby's threads are pre-emptive, which I doubt :) Rik