From: Matthew Bloch <mattbee@...>
Date: 2002-03-04T17:37:45+09:00
Subject: Re: UNIX domain sockets madness

Answering my own question, ah well:

> My problem is that the background window code seems to block indefinitely
> the first time you try to read anything from it after accepting a
> connection:
> 
>   @server = UNIXServer.new("/tmp/throwback-socket-:0.0")
>   ...
>   @thread = Thread.new() {
>     begin
>       print "Starting accept\n"
>       timeout(5) { client = @server.accept }
>     rescue TimeoutError
>       print "Timeout on accept, exiting\n"
>       @server.close
>       Thread.exit
>     end

And of course what happens to 'client' after we exit the begin / end block 
?  It's not there, of course, because I should've declared it as local 
*outside* of the block.  I guess my question now is why didn't I see an 
exception thrown for trying to access a duff reference?

-- 
Matthew