From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-07-16T13:44:54+09:00
Subject: Re: non blocking sockets in Ruby?

Hi,

At Tue, 16 Jul 2002 09:48:34 +0900,
Serg Koren wrote:
>   Is there a non-blocking socket call I can use in Ruby to see if there
> is data waiting on it?

You don't need non-blocking mode.

  select([socket])		# wait until data received
  select([socket], nil, nil, 0)	# poll if data received

If you set a socket to non-blocking mode, EWOULDBLOCK can occur
but current ruby implementation looses the data received before
the error.

-- 
Nobu Nakada