From: Alan Davies <NOSPAMcs96and@...>
Date: 2003-08-05T21:39:08+09:00
Subject: BUG: Incorrect error numbers being reported with TCPSocket

Hello

I'm using ruby 1.8.0 on windows 2000.  I've discovered that when 
TCPSocket.new raises an exception, the Exception.errno variable contains 
the wrong error number, and subsequently, $! contains the wrong error 
text.

e.g.
TCPSocket.new("some.host.com", 80)

if some.host.com is not listening on port 80, you should receive error 
10061: "No connection could be made because the target machine actively 
refused it."  This is the error I used to receive with ruby 1.6.7

However, with ruby 1.8.0, I get error 61: "The printer queue is full"  
This is obviously incorrect.  It seems that 10000 has been subtracted 
from the error number for some strange reason.

Cheers,
Alan.