From: Carlos <angus@...>
Date: 2003-05-07T20:50:54+09:00
Subject: Re: disable buffering on sockets

> 3.times do
>     sleep(1)
>     sock.send("hello, nice to see you", 0)
> end
> --
> 
> the other socket buffers the data and so socket.read does
> not work.
> 
> I'm using now socket.gets and send the following string
> ``hello, nice to see you\n幹 - this works.
> 
> If I send the the string without a linefeed char, the buffer
> is retrieved to the script on socket.close.

Probably gets is waiting for a linefeed to return the data.

See ri IO.gets