From: Francis Cianfrocca <garbagecat10@...>
Date: 2006-08-03T22:46:54+09:00
Subject: Re: TCPSocket: bind method missing

On 8/3/06, Hadmut Danisch <hadmut@danisch.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just tried to write an rsh client in Ruby.
>
> I ran into the problem that Ruby offers only a TCPSocket class, where
> you can just give the hostname and the port of the peer, but not the
> local port number to bind to.
>
> This is really important for some protocols, e.g. all protocols
> requiring privileged connections.
>
>
> Any idea why this is missing or how to workaround the problem?
>
> regards
> Hadmut
>
>
>


Have you tried using the Socket class? You have to set your own
parameters (SOCK_STREAM, AF_INET, etc) but it definitely has #bind.