From: Francis Cianfrocca <garbagecat10@...>
Date: 2006-09-06T12:27:32+09:00
Subject: Re: Total newbie, but I think I found a bug in Socket?

On 9/5/06, Patrick Toomey <ptoomey3@mac.com> wrote:
 > now, after running this script on both ruby 1.8.4 and 1.8.5 on Mac OS
> X I received an error "`bind': Invalid argument - bind(2)
> (Errno::EINVAL)   "  I proceed to run the script on linux on 1.8.4
> and 1.8.5 and discover that bind works, but that
> "socket.readline.chomp" should really be "client.readline.chomp".


Try it with "127.0.0.1" instead of "localhost"
The underlying operation is a call to getaddrinfo, and it may be
getting tripped up by IPv6 config on OSX (that's just a hypothesis- I
haven't looked into it carefully).