Hi. I have found a bug that is present in version 1.8.0, but not in version 1.6.8. The following should raise a Errno::EAGAIN, but does not anymore: it waits instead. BTW someone else reports he has the same thing _working_ on his machine. Note: I can't find anything related to non-blocking mode in Rubicon, despite my request (see [ruby-talk:31825] and following) to make it so, and Matz's approval. I will probably add unit-tests for _Ruby_'s functionality into _my_ own Ruby programs, if I still can't get them into Rubicon. ------------------8<--------cut-here--------8<------------------ require "socket" require "fcntl" class IO def nonblock= flag bit = Fcntl::O_NONBLOCK state = fcntl(Fcntl::F_GETFL, 0) fcntl(Fcntl::F_SETFL, (state & ~bit) | (if flag; bit else 0 end)) end end foo=TCPServer.new(4242) foo.nonblock=true foo.accept ________________________________________________________________ Mathieu Bouchard http://artengine.ca/matju