From: Patrick Toomey <ptoomey3@...>
Date: 2006-09-07T06:33:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Total newbie, but I think I found a bug in Socket?


On Sep 6, 2006, at 8:15 AM, Daniel Martin wrote:

> Daniel Martin <martin@snowplow.org> writes:
>
>> Tell me, does this ruby script work on your two environments?
>>
>> # In one script, start this first
>>      require 'socket'
>>      include Socket::Constants
>>      sockaddrinfo = Socket.getaddrinfo( 'localhost', 2200, AF_INET,
>>                                         SOCK_STREAM )[0]
>>      socket = Socket.new( *sockaddrinfo[4..6] )
>>      sockaddr = Socket.pack_sockaddr_in( sockaddrinfo[1],  
>> sockaddrinfo[3] )
>>      socket.bind( sockaddr )
>>      socket.listen( 5 )
>>      client, client_sockaddr = socket.accept
>>      puts "The client said, '#{client.readline.chomp}'"
>>      client.puts "Hello from script one!"
>>      socket.close
>
>
> Actually, I made a slight error here, according to the documentaion of
> getaddrinfo.  That "sockaddr =" bit should be:
>
> sockaddrinfo = Socket.getaddrinfo( 'localhost', 2200, AF_INET,
>                                    SOCK_STREAM, nil, AI_PASSIVE )[0]
>
> In this context (when we're binding to a specific IP address) it
> doesn't matter, but if you're re-using this code to bind to the "any"
> address, you'll want that AI_PASSIVE bit in there.  (You'll also want
> to replace 'localhost' with nil)
>
>

This script ran perfectly.  Thanks for all your help.  When I get  
some time I'll sit down to actually process what your above script is  
actually doing :-)

Thanks,
Patrick