From: Yohanes Santoso <ysantoso-rubytalk@...>
Date: 2005-03-29T01:11:24+09:00
Subject: Re: TCPServer

David Corbin <dcorbin@machturtle.com> writes:

> Exactly my point.  So why does it inherit from TCPSocket, and more importanly 
> IO? read, write and all the variations are all not applicable, as far as I 
> can tell.

> On Sunday 27 March 2005 08:15 pm, Eric Hodel wrote:

>> A TCP Server is just a socket you called listen(2) on:

Exactly because it is a TCPSocket. A TCPServer is a TCPSocket with
bound local address(es) (whether it is a specific local address or all
addresses the local host responds to) and thus can be made to listen
to incoming TCP connections on those _bound_ local address(es).

YS.