From: Francis Cianfrocca <garbagecat10@...>
Date: 2006-09-06T01:02:22+09:00
Subject: Re: C socket to Ruby socket

On 9/5/06, Andre Nathan <andre@digirati.com.br> wrote:
> Hello
>
> What is the correct way to convert a C socket (int) to a Ruby Socket
> object in a C extension? Something like
>
>   int s = socket(...);
>   VALUE sock = rb_some_func(s);
>
> In my extension there's a callback function that receives a socket as an
> argument, and I'd like to pass that socket as an argument to a ruby
> block, so I need to convert it to a Socket object first.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Andre
>
>
>

does it need to be a Socket? class IO can be initialized with a file descriptor.