From: Mark Firestone <mark@...>
Date: 2008-07-02T00:25:17+09:00
Subject: Re: in select: interrupt

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Robert Klemme
<shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:

> Hm, maybe your process receives a signal or the thread is somehow interrupted.
>
> Then you're probably catch an exception somewhere without rethrowing
> or reporting it.
>
>
> Laughing is usually not my reaction to this kind of mess...
>
Heh.  So, what is your usual reaction?  Tears?  Dispair?  It's a mess
I intend to clean up, I assure you... (;

>
> You are doing at least one mistake: you #select with a timeout but do
> not check return values.  With a timeout #select might return without
> anything to read - simply because time has passed.

Shouldn't it return nil in that case?

> Also, as I said, I'd start with the regular #read and not use #sysread.

Ok.  What's the difference?


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