From: Brian Candler <B.Candler@...>
Date: 2003-03-10T01:16:04+09:00
Subject: Suggestion for setsockopt

Extract from ruby-1.6.8:

static VALUE
bsock_setsockopt(sock, lev, optname, val)
    VALUE sock, lev, optname, val;
{
    int level, option;
    OpenFile *fptr;
    int i;
    char *v;
    int vlen;

    rb_secure(2);
    level = NUM2INT(lev);   <<<<


I'd like to suggest that if 'lev' is provided as a string, then a
getprotobyname() is done to convert it to an integer. Under Solaris and
FreeBSD (at least), constants like 'SOL_TCP' are not defined, but you are
supposed to lookup the protocol number in this way.

If this has already been done in the development versions of Ruby, please
excuse the noise :-)

Regards,

Brian.