On 8/6/07, Steven Lumos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> "Zed A. Shaw" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Sun, 5 Aug 2007 17:02:12 -0700
> > Corey Jewett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >> This is for when you pass mongrel 0 for the port and the OS assigns
> >> an open one.
> >>
> >> Corey
> >
> > Does that work on Windows?  :-)  (Gets them every time.)
>
> Well, they just ripped off Berkeley sockets, right?
>

yes and no, sockets are a bit tricky on windows, but in this case,
isolation of Ruby VM play on our side.

> This is v1.8.2 of the one-click installer.  I'll bother to update it
> if anyone thinks it matters.
>
> irb(main):001:0> require 'socket'
> => true
> irb(main):002:0> s = TCPServer.new(0)
> => #<TCPServer:0x2dc4930>
> irb(main):003:0> s.addr
> => ["AF_INET", 1110, "0.0.0.0", "0.0.0.0"]
> irb(main):004:0>
>

Confirmed, 1.8.5 behaves the same way like 1.8.2, since addr is the
Array with [Protocol, Port, ServerIP, ClientIP].

Anyway, what is the purpose of a random HTTPServer port? If you try to
open a mongrel server in an already taken port, a error must be shown,
instead of a false positive.

-- 
Luis Lavena
Multimedia systems
-
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which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that
is worthwhile.
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