Re: [Rubydotnet-developer] [ANN] Ruby/.NET bridge release 4 now available

[Richard K. <ri...@in...>]

This is caused by the getchar stuff under win32 using blocking IO, and 
since Ruby is single (native) threaded it locks up that thread.  All 
the other IO (net specific, etc) uses non-blocking.  I am sure if you 
search RubyTalk you will see this discussed over and over.  No one has 
created a good solution...also popen3 would be great to have on win32.  
This has been tried but still nothing.

-rich

On Tuesday, September 23, 2003, at 08:53  PM, John R. Pierce wrote:

> Gosh, we second this!  Agreed!  Why does it have to block? This needs 
> fixed in
> either Ruby or the underlying platform. Any thoughts on how to 
> proceed?  Should
> we work with the Pragmatic Programmers?  This has been quite annoying 
> to us and
> limits what we can do.