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class method

BasicSocket.for_fd

BasicSocket.for_fd(fd) => basicsocket

ext/socket/basicsocket.c View on GitHub ↗

static VALUE
bsock_s_for_fd(VALUE klass, VALUE _descriptor)
{
    rb_io_t *fptr;

    int descriptor = RB_NUM2INT(_descriptor);
    rsock_validate_descriptor(descriptor);

    VALUE sock = rsock_init_sock(rb_obj_alloc(klass), descriptor);

    GetOpenFile(sock, fptr);

    return sock;
}

Returns a socket object which contains the file descriptor, fd.

Example

# If invoked by inetd, STDIN/STDOUT/STDERR is a socket.
STDIN_SOCK = Socket.for_fd(STDIN.fileno)
p STDIN_SOCK.remote_address

See also .do_not_reverse_lookup= #close_read .do_not_reverse_lookup #close_write also in 4.1 · 4.0 · 3.4 · 3.3 · 3.1 · 3.0

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