From: Jeff Davis <jdavis-list@...>
Date: 2005-02-11T13:40:30+09:00
Subject: network program

I am writing an application and my design is for a non blocking tcp 
server. I have written non blocking network apps in C before.

I am having trouble digging through the standard library. I have done 
this before in C with no problems. Are there some basic wrappers for the 
normal C functions and constants? I couldn't even find the F_SETFL 
constant to change the socket descriptor to non blocking. The constants 
seem to be all over the place (some in Socket, but I also need 
File::NONBLOCK, which is named differently than O_NONBLOCK...). When 
reading the documentation it's asking for a packed sockaddr to be passed 
to connect.

Is this really the simplest, ruby-like way to build a non-blocking 
network app? It seems like this is harder and messier than C. It's also 
hard to find the constants and functions even if they do exist.

I really like the Ruby language and this would be my first real Ruby 
project (of course I'm still in the prototype stage). However, it seems 
like even the basic parts of the standard library could either use some 
work or some better documentation.

Regards,
	Jeff Davis