From: Maggie Xiao Date: 2002-07-18T14:28:00+09:00 Subject: What is the EIO error? Hi there, I meet a problem when I try to read an input character from keyboard in a subprocess; the error message is :ERRNO:EIO.a part of my code is as follow: fork{f=STDIN.GETC while not(f==101) ..... ..... end } Anyone can tell me what's wrong with my code? And how to fix it? Where I can find the description of the error? Thanks. Maggie