On Fri, 6 Feb 2004 nobu.nokada / softhome.net wrote:

> Date: Fri, 6 Feb 2004 09:40:26 +0900
> From: nobu.nokada / softhome.net
> Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
> Subject: Re: io/nonblock
> 
> Hi,
> 
> At Fri, 6 Feb 2004 09:25:08 +0900,
> Ara.T.Howard wrote in [ruby-talk:91658]:
> > why not have it in the core io methods?
> 
> Well, IIRC, because it is not portable enough, for io/wait at least.  Hmmm,
> but EWOULDBLOCK is supported by core..., might it be OK for io/nonblock
> alone?

i don't really know - i was just saying that is it such a useful method it
would be nice if it were possible for it to be in the core.

-a
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