From: Sam Duncan Date: 2011-11-11T04:10:38+09:00 Subject: Re: How timeout $stdin.gets ? On 10/11/11 20:40, Kyung won Cheon wrote: > windows7 > ruby 1.8.6 > For your particular use case can you simply refactor it to use select? ruby-1.8.6-p420 :001 > readable = select([$stdin], [], [], 1) => nil Sam