From: Bill Kelly <billk@...>
Date: 2005-02-11T15:33:33+09:00
Subject: Re: network program

Hi,

From: "Jeff Davis" <jdavis-list@empires.org>
>
> 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.

I use, for ex.

require 'fcntl'

# ...

  sock.fcntl(Fcntl::F_SETFL, Fcntl::O_NONBLOCK)
  sent = sock.send(str, 0)

# ...


HTH,

Regards,

Bill