From: Shay Hawkins <gohegdeh@...>
Date: 2010-01-05T06:00:42+09:00
Subject: Re: "Dummy" IO object to push and pull data?

Brian Candler wrote:
> What happens if you run this under Windows?

C:\Users\Shay\Desktop>ruby prg1.rb
15:51:20   > Awaiting data...
15:51:21   Output: -2
15:51:21   > Awaiting data...

Then nothing else happens. I'm 90% sure this is because Windows, being 
the operating system that it is, holds up everything when .gets() is 
called on stdin until something is provided.

Brian Candler wrote:
> Now, this slightly muddies the water because prg2.rb also depends on 
> being able to select(), as I wanted it to be able to sleep *and* receive 
> data on stdin, the same as your main program does. So it would be also 
> interesting to know what happens if you do "ruby prg2.rb" by itself. It 
> *should* print a new number every 2 seconds, and if you type something 
> onto stdin, it should echo it back as >>> Received ... <<<

C:\Users\Shay\Desktop>ruby prg2.rb
-2
C:\Users\Shay\Desktop>Hello World!
>>> Received Hello World! <<<
-1
C:\Users\Shay\Desktop>Blah~
>>> Received Blah~ <<<
0

And so forth and so on.

Brian Candler wrote:
> (*) Incidentally: for someone to reproduce this problem, they'll need to
> know exactly what platform you have. You said "Windows Vista" but you
> didn't say which version of Ruby, nor which package (Cygwin? One-Click
> Installer? Other?)

C:\Users\Shay\Desktop>ruby -v
ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) [i386-mswin32]

The program I used to install it (or at least what I have in my 
downloads folder) is ruby186-27_rc2 from rubyinstaller.rubyforge.org.
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