From: Aristarkh A Zagorodnikov <xm@...3d.ru>
Date: 2001-07-25T00:06:11+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:18436] Re: nonblocking socket error under windows?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ralf Canis" <rc@duria.de>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ruby
To: "ruby-talk ML" <ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org>; <undisclosed-recipients:>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 6:10 PM
Subject: [ruby-talk:18430] nonblocking socket error under windows?


> Hi,
>
> those few lines crash with
>
>   No buffer space available; the socket cannot be connected -
>   "recvfrom(2)" (Errno::ENOBUFS)
>
> under Windows (1.6.4 install-shield version) but work fine with the Linux
> version.
>
> Looks like a call to recv on a nonblocking socket WITHOUT any data to read
> causes this "bug".
>
> - Anybody can confirm this?
> - Does a method exist to check if there is anything in the
>   input queue without calling recv? (ok, I can catch this exception but
>   there has to be a better solution)
There is select ;) the power of this function when building any
network-related stuff always amazed me.

Aristarkh A Zagorodnikov, Lead Programmer, W3D Group
http://www.w3d.ru /// xm@w3d.ru /// ICQ UIN 36987938