From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-08-06T06:25:54+09:00
Subject: Re: "gets" blocking process not thread (in Windows only)

Hi,

At Tue, 6 Aug 2002 03:33:07 +0900,
Paul Brannan wrote:
> Could rb_f_select() be changed to work in terms of
> WaitForMultipleObjects?

I heard it's not guaranteed to work with sockets, and
WSAEventSelect() is needed to handle sockets but it set the
socket to non-blocking mode.  Currently, non-blocking IO causes
Errno::EWOULDBLOCK exception.  We're still discussing about
NBIO ([ruby-talk:46296]).

-- 
Nobu Nakada