From: Michael Kircher <Michael.Kircher@...>
Date: 2001-10-26T22:52:34+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23445] TCP Socket and timeout problem

Hi

I have a small piece of code which tries to connect to a server.
It keeps trying, even if the server is not available. With Ruby 1.6.4
on Windows 2000 I get a deadlock at iteration 180.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Michael

P.S.: Matz, we talked at OOPSLA briefly about this. Do you remember?

      @obervable = 139.23.189.51

        client=nil
        counter=0
        while client==nil
          begin
            counter+=1
            puts "Trying (#{@observable}:9000).. #{counter} times"
            timeout (3) do
              client = TCPSocket.new(@observable, 9000)
            end
          rescue TimeoutError
            puts ".. connect failed"
            client=nil
          end
        end
        puts ".. connected."