Daniel Brumbaugh Keeney
3/5/2008 7:55:00 PM
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 3:10 AM, Venkat Bagam <bagam_venkat@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am a newbie at scraping and multi-threading too. Recently, I
> have to implement these two in one of my application. Please find my
> code in the attachment. I was facing some peculiar issues and the reason
> I don't know!!! The code works pretty well on my ubuntu7.04 but throws
> some "sysread", "read_status_line" errors when run on Windows. What
> could be the obvious problem? Any help greatly appreciated.
>
> regards,
> Venkat Bagam
sysread uses a "low-level" read. In general, I wouldn't be confident
that anything marked as "low-level" can be mixed well with
multi-threading. On my system, sysread is slower than ordinary read,
so I fail to see the advantage versus the standard IO#read.
Daniel Brumbaugh Keeney