From: Wilkes Joiner <boognish23@...>
Date: 2002-06-17T10:17:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Kernel#select questions

--- Dossy <dossy@panoptic.com> wrote:
> On 2002.06.17, Wilkes Joiner <boognish23@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I'm trying to track down a bug where Kernel#select is returning
> > [[],[],[]] as opposed to [[anIO],[anIO],[anIO]] or nil.  Why would it
> > ever return [[],[],[]]? Any hints would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> I can think of a few off the top of my head:
> 
> 1)  Kernel#select timing out?

That should return nil, right?

> 
> 2)  Kernel#select receiving a signal (setting errno == EINTR perhaps).

Would this generate an exception?

- Wilkes


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