From: Ammar Ali <ammarabuali@...>
Date: 2010-07-14T18:31:02+09:00
Subject: Re: gets() -- Need to skip when no response after 20seconds

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On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 12:07 PM, Michael Fellinger
<m.fellinger@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> if select([$stdin], nil, nil, 20)
>  p gets
> end
>
>
IIRC, the last time I tried that on Windows (a while back) the select
returned on the first char and then gets acted as usual, blocking until EOL.
I would like to know if that actually works.

Ammar

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