From: Paul Argentoff <argentoff@...>
Date: 2003-07-29T14:55:51+09:00
Subject: Re: aSocket.select

On Monday 28 July 2003 20:44, ts wrote:

>  You have an example in lib/net/telnet.rb
>
>       until(prompt === line and not IO::select([@sock], nil, nil,
> waittime)) unless IO::select([@sock], nil, nil, time_out)
>           raise TimeoutError, "timed-out; wait for the next data"
>         end

This is obvious, and I wouldn't ask the question if I was glad with this 
pattern. My question was: if I use select as a method of aSocket object (anIO 
inherently, which is documented), how can I specify a timeout then. The 
interpreter says that anObject.select must be used with 0 arguments, but that 
seems to be stupid... -- why do I need select if I cannot specify he 
request's time boundary?

-- 
Yours truly, WBR, Paul Argentoff.