From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-02-20T13:03:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Might be IO.pipe, not eruby (was Re: eRuby and require)

Hi,

In message "Might be IO.pipe, not eruby (was Re: eRuby and require)"
    on 02/02/20, Patrick May <patrick-may@monmouth.com> writes:

|Is this the type of script you have?  This can hang, but eruby is not
|the culprit.  Above a certain size IO.pipe doesn't seem to work right.

I guess it's the OS limitation of pipe(2).  They have limited sized
buffer, so that if you put too much data on them, they block.

							matz.