why is gethostbyname in TCPSocket?

M

msoulier

Looking for dns support, I found the gethostbyname method as a class
method of TCPSocket in the socket library.

Seems like an odd place, considering that gethostbyname is hardly
specific to TCP protocol alone.

Any idea why it was put there?

Cheers,
Mike
 
G

gga

msoulier ha escrito:
Looking for dns support, I found the gethostbyname method as a class
method of TCPSocket in the socket library.

Seems like an odd place, considering that gethostbyname is hardly
specific to TCP protocol alone.

Any idea why it was put there?

It wasn't. It's part of Socket, which seems rather logical. TCPSocket
just inherits from Socket.
 
E

Eric Hodel

Looking for dns support, I found the gethostbyname method as a class
method of TCPSocket in the socket library.

$ ruby -rsocket -e 'p TCPSocket.ancestors'
[TCPSocket, IPSocket, BasicSocket, IO, File::Constants, Enumerable,
Object, Kernel]
Seems like an odd place, considering that gethostbyname is hardly
specific to TCP protocol alone.

Any idea why it was put there?

It wasn't.

$ ruby -rsocket -e 'p Socket.gethostbyname("localhost")'
["localhost", [], 30, "\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000\000
\000\000\000\000\001"]
 

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