From: schuerig@... (Michael Schuerig) Date: 2001-01-22T04:10:02+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:9673] Re: Non-blocking I/O? Christian wrote: > "Michael Schuerig" wrote: > > > Mathieu Bouchard wrote: > > > > I don't know whether select() works at all on regular files. > > > At least it looks as if it does. > > This is very likely outside the interest of the discussion, but Linux's > select() is extremely slow. Sigh. > It polls, and will block the calling process. This may be relevant if you > are select()ing on file handles (to pipes) on a machine that is network > laden. Blocking inside select() is fine for my purpose, but polling I can do myself. I'd hoped I'd get something better with select... Michael -- Michael Schuerig mailto:schuerig@acm.org http://www.schuerig.de/michael/