From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-05-16T19:13:36+09:00
Subject: Re: TCP Sockets

Hi,

At Fri, 16 May 2003 18:51:48 +0900,
Dominik Werder wrote:
> Unfortunately this seems to be very buggy. Sometimes it works, but
> most of the times the function returns nil although there is data
> available (readable without blocking).

I admit it's not been tested enough, do you have test script or
something?

> Question to all:
> Why is something like this not standard and thouroughly tested? Are
> threads the only practical solution of this problem?

One reason why it is not standard was Ruby had threads as you
mentioned, another was it's not available everywhere.  And it
is in ROUGH in order to be tested before included in standard.

-- 
Nobu Nakada