From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2003-12-13T02:07:02+09:00
Subject: non-blocking io


rubyists-

i've got some code for which i need to implement non-blocking io.  i do this
so seldomly that i always have to google clr and read about doing it.
considering that ruby's thread model at times requires nbio it seems like a
'standard' method/lib of accomplishing this safely (handling appropriate
signals, etc) should be out there.  anyone know of such a beast?  right now
i'm looking at

  http://raa.ruby-lang.org/list.rhtml?name=io-wait

but would like to avoid c extensions for this particular application.

any reason why something like io-wait would not be included in the standard
dist?  portability i'm guessing...

any _complete_ impl of non-blocking io in sources from the RAA that could be
reccomended for study?

thanks.

-a
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