From: Nikolay Elkov <nick@...>
Date: 2002-04-03T16:51:19+09:00
Subject: TCPSocket::new in ruby 1.7

When I execute the following

irb(main):003:0> s = TCPSocket::new('somehost' , 23, 'myhost', 45678)
#<TCPSocket:0xa08f7a8>
irb(main):004:0>

I get this:

 TCP    myhost:45678         myhost:0             LISTENING
 TCP    myhost:45678         somehost:telnet          ESTABLISHED

After I close the socket, they are both gone. However, the following

irb(main):006:0> begin
irb(main):007:1* timeout (5) do
irb(main):008:2* s = TCPSocket::new('somehost' , 233, 'myhost', 45678)
irb(main):009:2> end
irb(main):010:1> rescue TimeoutError
irb(main):011:1> puts "timeout"
irb(main):012:1> end
timeout
nil
irb(main):013:0>

produces

  TCP    httpsvr1:45678         myhost:0             LISTENING

There is no, at lead I can't think of any, a way to close the LISTENING
socket.
Is it supposed to work like this and if so, how do I close the socket?