From: Daniel Berger <djberge@...55host11.interprise.com>
Date: 2002-08-15T04:57:24+09:00
Subject: [ANN] Net/Proto 0.1.0

Version 0.1.0 of Net/Proto has been released into the wild.

This was actually released earlier, but in lieu of the discussion about 
RWN, I thought I should make an announcement.

What is it?

An interface to the getprotobyname(), getprotobynumber() and 
getprotoent() functions.

What's it for?

You'll most likely use them with sockets.

For those platforms that support them, the reentrant (i.e. thread-safe) 
versions of these functions are used.

Synopsis:

require "net/proto"

include Net


Proto.getprotobyname("tcp") -> 6

Proto.getprotobynumber(1) -> "icmp"


# List them all
Proto.getprotoent{ |p|

   puts p.name

   puts p.aliases

   puts p.proto

}

Notes:

setprotoent() and endprotoent() functions have not been added (and I 
doubt they ever will be since they're relics IMHO).

Available on the RAA.  Enjoy!

Dan