From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-10-27T07:16:52+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23552] Re: TCP Socket and timeout problem

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:23445] TCP Socket and timeout problem"
    on 01/10/26, Michael Kircher <Michael.Kircher@mchp.siemens.de> writes:

|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?

You're using Ruby on Cygwin. I'm now suspecting Cygwin socket.  Can
you try other one, e.g. mingw?

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

Yes, of course.

							matz.