From: Maggie  Xiao <mxiao@...>
Date: 2002-07-19T04:04:38+09:00
Subject: Re: What is the EIO error?

Thanks, it works but the shell cannot accept my command while the child
process runs,but I need to be able to enter commands normally to the shell
at the same time.
 Original Message -----
From: "Park Heesob" <phasis@kornet.net>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>
Sent: Thursday, July 18, 2002 12:09 AM
Subject: Re: What is the EIO error?


> Hi,
>
> I think you would like to this:
>
> a = Thread.new {
> while not((f=STDIN.getc)==101)
> ....
> end
> }
> a.join
>
>
> "Maggie Xiao" <mxiao@ee.ualberta.ca> wrote in message
> news:3D386E59@webmail.ualberta.ca...
> > 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
> >
>
>
>