From: "Berger, Daniel" <djberge@...>
Date: 2002-08-07T20:52:14+09:00
Subject: RE: -proto- functions in Ruby



> -----Original Message-----
> From: matz@ruby-lang.org [mailto:matz@ruby-lang.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 11:05 PM
> To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> Subject: Re: -proto- functions in Ruby
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> In message "-proto- functions in Ruby"
>     on 02/08/07, Daniel Berger <djberge@attbi.com> writes:
> 
> |Are there plans to add any of the proto functions to Ruby in 
> the near future? 
> | If so, will they be added as class methods to "Socket" or 
> will it be a 
> |subclass of "Etc" (e.g. Etc::Proto)?
> 
> Sorry for ignorance, but what is the "proto functions"?
> Where can I get information about these functions?
> 
> 							matz.

Sorry - I meant to provide at least one example of what I meant!  I'm
talking about "getprotobyname", "getprotobynumber", "getprotoent",
"setprotoent" and "endprotoent".  I found the source for these at
http://www.ajk.tele.fi/libc/code.html, though I'm not sure how old this is.
There also seems to be a minor bit of BSD specific code (the external int).

Thanks,

Dan