From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2003-05-15T12:26:57+09:00
Subject: Re: ping.rb

Ryan Davis wrote:

>> On my Mac OSX,
>>
>>    TCPSocket.new('localhost', 'echo')
> 
>> raises EINVAL:
>>
>> This breaks ping.rb, which seems to assume it will be seeing 
>> ECONNREFUSED. This means that pingecho('localhost') returns false on 
>> my box.
>>
> 
> I think this is valid per default mac os x setup:
> 
> <497> telnet localhost echo
> Trying ::1...
> telnet: connect to address ::1: Connection refused
> Trying 127.0.0.1...
> telnet: connect to address 127.0.0.1: Connection refused
> telnet: Unable to connect to remote host

Yes - but 'connection refused' should generate ECONNREFUSED, which is 
handled specially inside ping.rb. Instead it seems to be generating EINVAL.

Cheers


Dave