From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-04-04T00:52:39+09:00
Subject: Re: TCPSocket::new in ruby 1.7

Hi,

In message "TCPSocket::new in ruby 1.7"
    on 02/04/03, "Nikolay Elkov" <nick@sarion.co.jp> writes:

|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?

The socket will be closed when the interpreter termitates or the
socket is recycled by GC.

							matz.