From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-08-16T02:19:46+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:19805] Re: Exception handling bug?

ale@crimson.propagation.net writes:

> Didn't post this to the bug database, as I'm not completely sure this is a
> bug. But let's see what you think about it.

I'm betting you don't have a post listening on echo (7).

Try a netstat -at | grep LISTEN

You program isn't hanging - it's looping because the TCPSocket.new
call is throwing an exception. In the 'working' case, this exception
is being passed to to the top level program, where you're ignoring it
an exiting. In the 'hanging' case, it's being ignored in the low level
routine, and you're looping calling it.


Dave