From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-01-05T21:45:06+09:00
Subject: Re: "Dummy" IO object to push and pull data?

On 01/04/2010 10:00 PM, Shay Hawkins wrote:
> 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.

Actually part of that functionality is in Ruby itself because IO uses 
buffering by default.  For tests like these it helps to place a line 
like this at the beginning of the script:

$stdout.sync = $stderr.sync = true

As far as I can see this wasn't done in Brian's test scripts so 
repeating with that line introduced will likely yield more accurate results.

Kind regards

	robert


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