From: Max Kuffs <newsgroup.20.max_kuffs@...>
Date: 2004-08-01T02:16:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Thread Questions

thank you very much!
the example helped, i think i understand why it didn't work the way i
wanted. 

regards
max kuffs


Robert Klemme wrote:

>
>"Max Kuffs" <newsgroup.20.max_kuffs@spamgourmet.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
>news:410bc141$0$10406$91cee783@newsreader01.highway.telekom.at...
>> Hello,
>>
>> I would like to write a little TCPServer which communicates with
>> another ruby program on another computer.
>>
>> So i tried all with TCPServer. I could connect and it worked, but i
>> want to execute it in a thread and now the program halts when i open
>> the server.
>
>You got the logic wrong: typically you want to serve each client in a
>separate thread.  Try this:
>
>require 'socket'
>
>SERVER_PORT = 4772
>LISTEN_ON = '0.0.0.0'
>
>server = TCPServer.new LISTEN_ON, SERVER_PORT
>clients = 0
>
>while true
>  Thread.new( server.accept, clients += 1 ) do |con, clnt|
>    puts "Connect with client #{clnt}"
>    while ( line = ( con.gets ) )
>      puts "From client #{clnt}: #{line}"
>    end
>    puts "EOF #{clnt}"
>  end
>end
>
>Note: I introduced "clients" and "clnt" just for the purpose of
>distinguishing output from different clients.
>
>Kind regards
>
>    robert
>