From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2007-03-14T06:01:19+09:00
Subject: Re: Bi-directional pipe?

On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 05:35:52AM +0900, ara.t.howard@noaa.gov wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Rob Biedenharn wrote:
> 
> >On Mar 13, 2007, at 4:15 PM, Brian Candler wrote:
> >>Is there any standard Ruby way of creating a bidirectional pipe or
> >>socketpair?
> 
> require 'socket'
> Socket.pair ....


irb(main):015:0> require 'socket'
=> true
irb(main):016:0> a = Socket.pair
ArgumentError: wrong number of arguments (0 for 3)
        from (irb):16:in `pair'
        from (irb):16
        from :0

OK, so it exists, it's just not documented in ri - time to grep the source I
guess. Thanks for the pointer.