From: "Firestone, Mark - Technical Support" <mark.firestone@...>
Date: 2002-06-26T22:25:55+09:00
Subject: more annoying socket questions.

Well guys, I solved my disconnect detection problem, at least for now, for
watching for killed threads.  

Now i have a new one.  I am reading the socket with eachbyte... like so...

 @socket.each_byte do  | fred| 

  # lots of stuff

 end

This works great.  I want another user (on another thread) to be able to
page a user.  I want it to pop up when they are sitting at a thread.  All
the read methods I have tried for reading the socket basically stop
execution of the thread waiting for the next character.  I have tried to use
getc as well, with the same results. 

How can I get my pages to work without the user having to do something at a
prompt (like press return)?  In Pascal, Wayne Conrad in his IO routines
provided me with a way of telling if there was something in the buffer, and
then reading it.  Ruby doesn't seem to do this.  Failing a way to handle
that, is there any way round this?

Thanks!

Mark


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