From: Alan Davies <NOSPAMcs96and@...>
Date: 2003-08-27T00:47:48+09:00
Subject: Re: [BUG] Incorrect TCPSocket errors

Sorry, I managed to hit ctrl+enter before I'd finished typing this.

I meant to say, I have posted this bug before but no-one replied so I'm 
hoping someone will pick it up this time.

In article <MPG.19b58d98813e9b1989689@news.datastream.com>, 
NOSPAMcs96and@yahoo.co.ukNOSPAM says...
> 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.
>