Excerpts (reformatted) from Roeland Moors's mail of 20 Aug 2004 (EDT):
> > Here's some code that hangs on the read for me:
> > 
> > PROC_FILE = "/proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state"         # freezes
> > #PROC_FILE = "/proc/acpi/power_resource/PFAN/state" # doesn't freeze
> 
> I have the same beavior with these files:
> PROC_FILE = "/proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/state"         # freezes
> PROC_FILE = "/proc/acpi/power_resource/PRCF/state" # doesn't freeze
> 
> I can't explain it :-)

So, guys, is this a bug in Ruby, or what?

(details: ruby 1.8.1 (2004-02-03) [i386-linux] and Linux kernel 2.6.8.1)

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William <wmorgan-ruby-talk / masanjin.net>