From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2005-08-11T03:28:13+09:00
Subject: Re: UDPSocket#bind with 0 or nil

Daniel Brockman wrote:
> Joel,
> 
> 
>>Anyone happen know what the difference between bind(0) and
>>bind(nil) is?
> 
> 
> I assume you mean bind(0, foo) vs. bind(nil, foo).
> The former binds to all interfaces, like bind("<any>", foo).
> The latter only binds to the loopback interface.
...snipped useful explanation...

Thanks, that clears it up and explains what I was seeing.

It's just confusing to me that the ruby nil value is used differently
from the Fixnum 0 in the front-end to a system call.

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