------ art_24172_27276266.1159157423822 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 9/24/06, Michael P. Soulier <msoulier / digitaltorque.ca> wrote: > > > [msoulier@tigger ~]$ ruby -v > ruby 1.8.4 (2005-12-24) [i686-linux] That's what I expected. Update Ruby, get past the documentation issue, and you should be ok with nonblocking i/o. In regard to timing, I would use select rather than SIGALRM. ------ art_24172_27276266.1159157423822--