From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-09-18T17:49:46+09:00
Subject: Re: A Windows issue with Kernel#select...

Hi,

At Tue, 17 Sep 2002 20:43:47 +0900,
Ben Schumacher wrote:
> Then I use Kernel#select to monitor the socket for new input:
>   x = select([s], nil, nil, 30)
>   puts x.inspect
> 
> In *nix (FreeBSD) when there is data waiting on the socket, I get the
> results, namely an array with my socket:
>   [[#<TCPSocket:0x2a64738>], [], []]
> 
> However, on Windows, I'm getting an empty array:
>   [[], [], []]

It sounds like the bug reported in [ruby-talk:40009].  If so, it
doesn't occur in 1.7 but hasn't been fixed in 1.6 yet.

-- 
Nobu Nakada