From: Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@...>
Date: 2006-09-07T05:04:12+09:00
Subject: Re: C socket to Ruby socket

nobu@ruby-lang.org wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> At Wed, 6 Sep 2006 20:41:41 +0900,
> Andre Nathan wrote in [ruby-talk:212933]:
>>>> extern VALUE rb_cSocket;
>>>>
>>>> in your extension. I've done that before.
>>> It doesn't work always on all platforms.
>> Will it eventually be externed in ruby.h then?
> 
> It isn't the point.  Dynamically loaded symbols may not visible
> from other loaded libraries.
> 

Socket is a pretty popular library. Maybe rb_cSocket could be declared 
in IO.c?

just a thought, and it would be inelegant...

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