From: Dave Thomas <Dave@...>
Date: 2000-05-25T02:05:44-05:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:02976] Re: Socket.getnameinfo

ts <decoux@moulon.inra.fr> writes:

> >>>>> "D" == Dave Thomas <Dave@thomases.com> writes:
> 
> D> OK - now I'm confused even more. Is this implying I need to pass a
> D> port number in as a string? I tried that, but got
> 
>  No, ruby always call getaddrinfo with hints->ai_socktype == 0
>  see ext/socket/socket.c
> 
> 	MEMZERO(&hints, struct addrinfo, 1);
> 	if (strcmp(STR2CSTR(af), "AF_INET") == 0) {
> 	    hints.ai_family = PF_INET;
> 	}
> #ifdef INET6
> 	else if (strcmp(STR2CSTR(af), "AF_INET6") == 0) {
> 	    hints.ai_family = PF_INET6;
> 	}
> #endif
> 	else {
> 	    hints.ai_family = PF_UNSPEC;
> 	}
> 	error = getaddrinfo(hptr, pptr, &hints, &res);

So when I document the call, I should say that the only value allowed
for the service parameter is nil?