From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2004-04-28T22:04:08+09:00
Subject: Re: DRb & thread blocking.

On Wed, 28 Apr 2004, daz wrote:

> 
> Ara.T.Howard wrote:
> >
> > ken-
> >
> > so far, this seems to work fine on my box?  what's you platform/arch/ruby
> > version, etc?
> >
> > -a
> >
> 
> Posting with OE6, I guess the answer's going to be Windows.
> 
> So gets() blocks everything.
> 
> If anyone knows the work-around to this, please add.
> 
> daz

in linux this should work, but doesn't (threads)

  require 'io/nonblock'
  buf = io.nonblock{io.read}

this is lame, but might work (i don't know if io/wait is in windows inst)

  buf = ''
  buf << io.getc while io.ready?

don't know much about the windows ruby...

-a
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