From: Markus Koenig <markus@...>
Date: 2005-07-08T05:05:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Socket Question - close

Zach Dennis schrieb:
Zach Dennis wrote:

> If you have two sockets connected to eachother. Let's say...
>    a_socket and b_socket
> 
> And you tell a_socket to close, why does b_socket not know it is closed?

Because there might be some data left in b_socket's input buffer:

a_socket.puts 'Hello world!'
a_socket.close

If b_socket.closed? would be true now, b_socket.gets wouldn't return
"Hello world!", which would be weird. After all, the underlying file
descriptor is still open.

Greets,
Markus