From: Matthew Shapiro <kalldrexx@...>
Date: 2002-06-05T05:34:59+09:00
Subject: Re: keyboard input

Where can I find information of Ruby's IO class?  And what do you mean by C libraries?  was ruby made in C?

--KallDrexx
------ Original Message -----
From: Yohanes Santoso <ruby-talk@jenny-gnome.dyndns.org>
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 04:58:22 +0900
To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML)
Subject: Re: keyboard input


> "Matthew Shapiro" <kalldrexx@programmer.net> writes:
> 
> > keyboard input in a non-blocking way.  One thing that I have been
> > thinking was using multithreading (which looks amazingly easy in
> > ruby) and use the .collect() function, but does this block?  
> 
> As long as you use the IO functions from the IO class, ruby won't
> block.
> 
> > Also will it pick up keys like the up arrow?
> 
> That depends on what the C library returns you. If your C library
> allows you to pick up the up arrow key using getc, then ditto for
> IO#getc.
> 
> Now, if my reading of eval.c and *sig* is correct, then the thread
> granularity of ruby is per AST node, and if a node takes more than 500
> ticks (of what?, of system's timer interrupt?), then it is pre-empted
> except if Thread#critical is set.
> 
> Am I correct?
> 
> YS.
> 



----KallDrexx

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