From: Park Heesob <phasis@...>
Date: 2002-07-19T10:19:59+09:00
Subject: Re: What is the EIO error?

Hi,

How about this:

a = Thread.new {
  while not(Thread.current['f']==101)
  # do something
  end
}

while f=STDIN.getc
  a['f'] = f
  # do something
end


Park Heesob

"Maggie Xiao" <mxiao@ee.ualberta.ca> wrote in message
news:001c01c22e8d$f0d8ed50$1800000a@ee.ualberta.ca...
> 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
> >
> >