From: Xiangrong Fang <xrfang@...>
Date: 2003-07-28T20:22:49+09:00
Subject: winsock problem?

Hi,

I wrote a socket program using ruby under windows, the main loop of this
program is:

begin
  server = TCPServer.new('127.0.0.1', port)
rescue Exception => e
  puts e.message
  exit
end
while session = server.accept do
    Thread.new do
          Client.new(session).run
    end
end

It runs smoothly. However I found a strange problem. If I run another
program (not written in Ruby) using the same port, that program will
take control of the port, and my program is "over-ruled"!  However, if
the other program runs first, and then I run my ruby one, the ruby
program print out error message that it can't bind the port.

I don't know why ruby's socket is so polite? Wondering...


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Xiangrong Fang <xrfang@hotmail.com>