Feature #1644: recv on inherited socket wrapped in TCPSocket does not read data, on Windows

• Status: Assigned
• Assignee: windows
• Target version: -

[kntuaf (Kedar H)]

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On Windows, if you try to wrap an existing winsock socket that was inherited from a parent process into a TCPSocket, any calls to recv on this socket in the child process will not retrieve any data.

This is because the inherited socket is not a member of the internal "socklist" structure in win32.c. rb_w32_select filters out all sockets that are not in this internal list, prior to calling ws2_32!select.

One good solution is for TCPSocket.for_fd to make sure to insert its argument into the socklist structure so that subsequent Winsock functions wrapped by Ruby will work as though the socket were created by this Ruby process. Another possible solution is to expose another method, something like TCPSocket.from_new_fd.
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[shyouhei (Shyouhei Urabe)]

• Status changed from Open to Assigned
• Assignee set to usa (Usaku NAKAMURA)

[usa (Usaku NAKAMURA)]

Inheritance of fd/handles is not supported now on Windows.
Of cource, it's our task for the future.

[usa (Usaku NAKAMURA)]

• Priority changed from Normal to 3

[znz (Kazuhiro NISHIYAMA)]

• Category set to ext
• Target version set to 2.0.0

[usa (Usaku NAKAMURA)]

• Description updated (diff)
• Target version changed from 2.0.0 to 3.0

[mame (Yusuke Endoh)]

Usa-san, do you still have a plan to imprement this?

[usa (Usaku NAKAMURA)]

• Assignee changed from usa (Usaku NAKAMURA) to windows

[naruse (Yui NARUSE)]

• Target version deleted (3.0)