From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2002-08-02T23:02:32+09:00
Subject: Re: "gets" blocking process not thread (in Windows only)

On Fri, Aug 02, 2002 at 10:31:15AM +0900, nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
> This limitation comes from that the current implementation uses
> select() in winsock.  It works only for socket handles, so the
> others are treated as always immediately readable/writable.
> This problem has been known but still unsolved.

What issues are there with using rb_f_select() instead?

> And one more issue, windows console reports ready to I/O even
> when a mouse event occurs, but ruby doesn't want it.

ReadConsoleInput should return the type of event, so even if a mouse
event occurs, you can ignore it.

Paul