From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-08-14T18:27:28+09:00
Subject: Re: TCPSocket select method


On Aug 13, 2007, at 23:54, Sylvain Joyeux wrote:

> On Monday 13 August 2007, Roger Pack wrote:
>> Hmm.  If you create a method thus:
>> class TCPSocket
>>  def readableNow?
>>    r,w,e = select([self],nil,nil,0)
>>    return r != nil
>>  end
>> end
>>
>> It turns out to use a select OTHER than IO.select. Anyone know, by
>> chance what the 'internal' select method does?
> It cannot use IO.select since IO.select is a singleton method of IO  
> and a
> TCPSocket object is an instance of IO. The only way to explicitely get
> IO.select is to call
>   r,w,e = IO.select(...)
>
> It calls Kernel#select. And I wouldn't be surprised if  
> Kernel#select and
> IO.select were actually the same method ...

They are.

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