From: Kero van Gelder <kero@...>
Date: 2003-08-03T00:20:10+09:00
Subject: Re: 1.8.0-previewX  rb_sys_fail() on socket instead of an Exception.

> Are you saying that the ruby interpreter is dying at this point? Do you get
> a core dump? (In which case gdb can be used to interpret it)

yup.

#3  0x080b7d40 in rb_bug (fmt=0x80d35d8 "rb_sys_fail() - errno == 0") at error.c:193
193         abort();

I should probably read a good book about gdb, to find out how it got
there (shame on me, CS Master's, lots of Linux experience :)

> Do you get the message "rb_sys_fail() - errno == 0" printed?

yup.
 
> I tried your code under FreeBSD-4.8; from server.rb I get a zillion 'nils'
> printed (from the infinite gets/prints loop), followed by an EPIPE when the
> other server thread tries to write to the closed socket: is that what you
> get with the working platforms?

yup.

My real code deals properly with gets returning nil, but I took it out in
the example.

Bye,
Kero.