From: "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
Date: 2003-12-22T15:01:56+09:00
Subject: BUG in fcntl?

In ruby 1.8.1 (2003-12-05) [i686-linux], why does this program:

	require 'fcntl'
	
	flags = $stdin.fcntl(Fcntl::F_GETFL)
	flags |= Fcntl::O_NONBLOCK
	
	$stdin.fcntl(Fcntl::F_SETFL, flags)
	
	c = $stdin.getc
	puts "c=#{c}"

Hang on the getc call?  I'd expect the same behavior as this C program:

	#include <fcntl.h>
	
	main()
	{
	    int ch;
	    int flags;
	    flags = fcntl(0, F_GETFL);
	    flags |= O_NONBLOCK;
	    fcntl(0, F_SETFL, flags);
	    ch = getchar();
	    printf("ch=`%d'\n", ch);
	}

which gets an instant EOF back from getchar().

-Mark