[ruby-core:23874] Re: inheriting socket in child process on native Windows

> Any other data I should present?
>
> The fact that this scenario doesn't work on Windows even after a fair amount
> of contortions seems like either a feature request or a bug in Ruby for
> Windows.
>
> Though, I'm not sure how it would be fixed. If the socklist manipulation
> functions were exposed in C, the implementation of TCPSocket.for_fd could
> potentially make sure to add the socket to the socklist. That seems to
> expose more guts of win32.c than people probably hoped to expose.

sounds like a feature request for TCPSocket.create_using_new_fd [or
should for_fd already do that and it's a bug in for_fd ?]

In the meantime you might be able to write a small C extension that
does nothing more than read from a given socket and return a ruby
string.
GL.
-=r