From: Albert Schlef <albertschlef@...>
Date: 2009-03-17T06:12:58+09:00
Subject: Re: does IO.read block?

Robert Klemme wrote:
> On 15.03.2009 23:02, Michael Malone wrote:
>> Or does read_end.read block until it finds EOF?
> 
> Yes, that's what it does:
> http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/IO.html#M002295

The docs shouldn't be read as a Bible. The docs may not be very precise. 
If IO#read is similar to C's read(), then it also returns when it had 
read all the available bytes. See "man 2 read".
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