From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-03-18T03:37:33+09:00
Subject: Re: does IO.read block?

On 16.03.2009 22:12, Albert Schlef wrote:
> 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".

In this particular case the docs are correct to my knowledge.  In other 
words IO#read *will* block until the full stream is read (or an error 
condition occurs of course).

Cheers

	robert