From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2002-07-02T12:59:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Reusing sockets

Hi,

In message "Reusing sockets"
    on 02/07/02, Joseph McDonald <joe@vpop.net> writes:

|while true
|  s.connect(sockaddr)
|  s.close
|end

|Here is what I get:
|./reuse.rb
|connected
|./reuse.rb:15:in `connect': closed stream (IOError)
|        from ./reuse.rb:15

Don't close.  You loose the underlying socket connection (the file
descriptor) when you close the socket.

|Also, anyone know of a more efficient way to pack the IP?

If you are using 1.7 socket, Socket.sockaddr_in(port, host) is
available.

							matz.