Hi, At Fri, 27 Sep 2002 06:37:21 +0900, Robert McGovern wrote: > > Hmmm, I tried the code in [ruby-talk:50993] with a little > > modification, and got similar error. I'll examin it. > > Excellent, thats good to hear :) that you'll look into it & can > reproduce it that is. I was beginning to think I was going mad! just > glad I kept persisting with it. Now I expect it's fixed. On my box, at least, it worked over 15,000 times. In mswin/mingw version, till 1.6, socket descriptor is duplicated and special finalizer was used. In 1.7 it is no longer done but the finalizer has been used. -- Nobu Nakada