From: Tony Arcieri <tony@...>
Date: 2009-02-07T03:49:22+09:00
Subject: Re: How can an I use nonblocking I/O with openssl?

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On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Yaxm Yaxm
<snowstorm+rubyforum@gmail.com<snowstorm%2Brubyforum@gmail.com>
> wrote:

> hello,
> I am using ruby's imap library to connect to gmail via ssl.
> But every now and then, my thread goes into sleep and never wakes up.
> I suspect that the thread is waiting for I/O for reading.
>
> how can I make openssl use nonblocking i/o?
>

In my event library Rev (http://rev.rubyforge.org) I ended up effectively
monkeypatching the C code in the Ruby OpenSSL extension in order to support
non-blocking I/O:

http://github.com/tarcieri/rev/blob/5f76c67996fd9076503072cf569ad935423e9d56/ext/rev/rev_ssl.c

I for one would certainly appreciate a "real" solution to doing non-blocking
SSL.

-- 
Tony Arcieri
medioh.com

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