From: Robert McGovern <tarasis@...>
Date: 2002-09-28T03:03:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Still having problems with SMTP send - help!

Patrick Bennett wrote:
> I'm periodically getting these [BUG] errors (not catchable) and I never 
> received a reply to my last post.
> Is this a known problem, and is there a fix available?
> This is with 1.7.2 on W2k (WindowsInstaller build)
> 
> Failed: Bad file descriptor
> ERROR P4NotifyD: Caught Errno::EBADF: Bad file descriptor
>        D:/P4Scripts/lib/ruby/1.7/net/protocol.rb:501:in `sysread'
>        D:/P4Scripts/lib/ruby/1.7/net/protocol.rb:501:in `rbuf_fill'
>        D:/P4Scripts/lib/ruby/1.7/net/protocol.rb:477:in `readuntil'
>        D:/P4Scripts/lib/ruby/1.7/net/protocol.rb:488:in `readline'
>        D:/P4Scripts/lib/ruby/1.7/net/smtp.rb:425:in `read_reply'
>        D:/P4Scripts/lib/ruby/1.7/net/smtp.rb:403:in `get_reply'
>        D:/P4Scripts/lib/ruby/1.7/net/protocol.rb:320:in `check_reply'
> D:/P4Scripts/lib/ruby/1.7/net/protocol.rb:576: [BUG] rb_sys_fail() - 
> errno == 0 ruby 1.7.2 (2002-07-02) [i386-mswin32]

You are getting a the same error I was getting (checkout the thread: 
don't understand cause of `sysread': Bad file descriptor (Errno::EBADF)).

Can you try your program out under cygwin and see if it gives out the 
same error?

Rob