From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2001-12-27T00:54:52+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:29445] Re: Surprise (?) with sockets

Thomas Hurst <tom.hurst@clara.net> writes:

> SOL_TCP is defined only if it's defined by the OS headers, where as
> IPPROTO_TCP is defined always (as the value the OS provides if it's
> there, or hardcoded to a magic number if not), at least in 1.6.6.

You have to love consistency. I'd always assumed the SOL_xxx variants
were the ones to use for the 'level' parameter, but digging through
Stevens it looks like the level field is a real mess: IPROTO_TCP is
the correct one to use. I'll add it to the errata.

Many thanks


Dave