From: Charles Oliver Nutter <headius@...>
Date: 2010-03-27T16:47:27+09:00
Subject: Re: user input timeout.

On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:23 AM, Colin Bartlett
<colinb2r@googlemail.com> wrote:
> It might depend on which operating system and/or Ruby version you are using.
> I tried the code underneath on Windows Vista, using the Ruby Windows versions,
> and Ruby. It works for me using Ruby 1.9 for Windows.
> But using Ruby 1.8.6  and using the JRuby 1.8 equivalent seemed to work,
> or rather not work, in the way you described in your latest post.

At least for JRuby, we can't do a proper select on stdio because the
JVM does not provide such a capability. So timeout can't interrupt
stdio.

- Charlie