From: Thomas Sondergaard Date: 2003-09-24T18:38:28+09:00 Subject: Re: Thread safety: Serializing access to ruby interpreter- again > Socket might work. If you say so, I'll give it a try. > > Out of curiousity, why does this happen on Windows? Is it not fixable? > > Because winsock's select() supports only socket handles. Is all ruby IO implemented in terms of select to avoid blocking the process? Why doesn't select block the process, btw? Thomas