From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-05-28T13:43:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Possible Bug in Ruby?

Hi,

At Mon, 27 May 2002 07:01:43 +0900,
Florian Frank wrote:
> 4. The host is not reachable because it is not on the wire. In this case
> the connection times out and the socket s is nil and thus cannot
> be closed. This would be ok but if you use a program like lsof or fstat
> and type "lsof -p $PID" or "fstat -p $PID" you can see that the socket
> is in fact opened. It doesn't seem possible to close it anyhow from within
> this script.
> 
> I don't know where the problem lies but I don't think it has something
> to do with timeout.rb but with the thread it uses. Does somebody
> have an idea how to fix this?

Read the thread from [ruby-talk:37308].

-- 
Nobu Nakada