From: Ari Brown <ari@...>
Date: 2007-06-01T04:58:23+09:00
Subject: Re: select([]) method


On May 31, 2007, at 10:12 AM, Felipe Contreras wrote:

> On 5/31/07, Ari Brown <ari@aribrown.com> wrote:
>> Hey all
>>         I cam across a new method:
>> select([], [], [], [])
>> where the objects in the select parentheses are arrays.
>>
>> But what does this exactly do? I could not find ANY documentation on
>> it. The original code is:
>>
>> ready = select([@irc, $stdin], nil, nil, nil)
>
> I agree with other comments, the documentation for select is pretty  
> bad.
>
> The most simple way to use it is like this:
>
> svrs = IO.select([my_fd], nil, nil, 0)
> svrs[0].each { |io| puts io.readline }

Alright, thanks everyone! This really cleared it up, and now i  
learned like 800 new things about ruby. BTW, the link that was tossed  
was definitely a great link. Thanks!

ari
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