From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2009-03-01T05:40:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Block reading from socket and STDIN

Giuseppe Parlavecchio wrote:
> Hi I am pretty new in ruby, may be this topic has already been discussed
> here. But I start running out of resources.
> I am on a Windows XP PC and I am using ruby186-26.
> 
> I am writing a client/Multiplexing Server socket application,
> (I took most of the code from the manual).
> 
> The server application, beside to listening on the socket via the
> select(...), must listening at the standard input. This is because a
> user has to give input to the server while he is handling the socket
> connection to clients.
> 
> The problem I found is that the select(...) and the STDIN.gets methos
> are both blocking also if I run it on two different threads.
> 
> Many thanks

Windows + STDIN.gets == ruby blocks other threads, sorry to say.

At least, that's my experience in ruby186. Maybe this has changed more 
recently?

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