From: Jesse Merriman <jesse.d.merriman@...>
Date: 2007-06-24T21:13:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Non-blocking IO & Maxima

On Saturday 23 June 2007 21:26, Tanaka Akira wrote:
> In article <200706231809.39921.jesse.d.merriman@gmail.com>,
>   Jesse Merriman <jesse.d.merriman@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > WTF? If I use "ls" instead of "maxima --batch-string='1+1;'" then it works it
> > both cases. So is this a problem with Maxima, Ruby, or my code?
> 
> I think it is caused by that maxima is slower than ls.
> 
> Try "sleep 1; ls".
> 
> It is impossible to read a line before a line is sent in
> non-blocking manner.


Ah, thats it, thanks. I wasn't thinking about the delay between typing lines
in IRB that gave it the time to execute..


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