From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-08-06T03:13:12+09:00
Subject: Re: "gets" blocking process not thread (in Windows only)

Hi,

At Fri, 2 Aug 2002 23:02:32 +0900,
Paul Brannan 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?

I meant that rb_f_select() is implemented with select().

> > 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.

I've read VC runtime source and know it, but haven't tried to
implement it.  And I don't know how to determin whether a given handle
is console input.

-- 
Nobu Nakada