Is there a way in ruby to do the equivalent of the select(2) unix
system call? I couldn’t find anything in the documentation I checked
but I may simply have been looking in the wrong places.
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Is there a way in ruby to do the equivalent of the select(2) unix
system call? I couldn't find anything in the documentation I checked
but I may simply have been looking in the wrong places.
Kernel::select
pigeon% ri Kernel::select
--------------------------------------------------------- Kernel::select
select( readArray [, writeArray [errorArray [timeout]]] ) ->
anArray or nil
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Performs a low-level select call, which waits for data to become
available from input/output devices. The first three parameters are
arrays of IO objects or nil. The last is a timeout in seconds,
which should be an Integer or a Float. The call waits for data to
become available for any of the IO objects in readArray, for
buffers to have cleared sufficiently to enable writing to any of
the devices in writeArray, or for an error to occur on the devices
in errorArray. If one or more of these conditions are met, the call
returns a three-element array containing arrays of the IO objects
that were ready. Otherwise, if there is no change in status for
timeout seconds, the call returns nil. If all parameters are nil,
the current thread sleeps forever.
select( [$stdin], nil, nil, 1.5 ) #=> [[#<IO:0x4019202c>], , ]
pigeon%
Guy Decoux
“Perry E. Metzger” perry@piermont.com writes:
Is there a way in ruby to do the equivalent of the select(2) unix
system call? I couldn’t find anything in the documentation I checked
but I may simply have been looking in the wrong places.
Never mind – I seem to have found it.
------------------------------------------------------------- IO::select
IO.select( readArray [, writeArray [errorArray [timeout]]] ) →
anArray
or nil
On 2002.08.22, Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com wrote:
Is there a way in ruby to do the equivalent of the select(2) unix
system call? I couldn’t find anything in the documentation I checked
but I may simply have been looking in the wrong places.
See Kernel#select on page 426.
– Dossy
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