document a blocking behavior of IO#eof?.

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@9084 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e

io.c

@@ -908,12 +908,31 @@ io_getc(OpenFile *fptr)
  *     ios.eof     => true or false
  *     ios.eof?    => true or false
  *
- *  Returns true if <em>ios</em> is at end of file. The stream must be
- *  opened for reading or an <code>IOError</code> will be raised.
+ *  Returns true if <em>ios</em> is at end of file that means
+ *  there are no more data to read.
+ *  The stream must be opened for reading or an <code>IOError</code> will be
+ *  raised.
  *
  *     f = File.new("testfile")
  *     dummy = f.readlines
  *     f.eof   #=> true
+ *
+ *  If <em>ios</em> is a stream such as pipe or socket, <code>IO#eof?</code>
+ *  blocks until the other end sends some data or closes it.
+ *
+ *     r, w = IO.pipe
+ *     Thread.new { sleep 1; w.close }
+ *     r.eof?  #=> true after 1 second blocking
+ *
+ *     r, w = IO.pipe
+ *     Thread.new { sleep 1; w.puts "a" }
+ *     r.eof?  #=> false after 1 second blocking
+ *
+ *     r, w = IO.pipe
+ *     r.eof?  # blocks forever
+ *
+ *  Note that <code>IO#eof?</code> reads data to a input buffer.
+ *  So <code>IO#sysread</code> doesn't work with <code>IO#eof?</code>.
  */
 
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