From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Date: 2003-01-02T12:13:03+09:00 Subject: Re: sysread of /dev/video with threads Hi, In message "sysread of /dev/video with threads" on 03/01/02, Pat Mahoney writes: |Can someone explain why the following code does not work? Hmm, probably select(2) does not show "ready" for /dev/video0 for your system. Could you try ruby -e 'p IO.select([File.open("/dev/video0")])' and send us result? matz.