Re: [Help-smalltalk] Error handling/checking, exceptions in general

[Bonzini]

> It appears gst uses poll() and checks for the POLLERR flag, which I think
> should work to test for the completion of the connection (although, it
> doesn't necessarily mean the connection was successful).

The problem is that I had disabled #ensureWriteable because it does not
work, for example, for TTYs, so the error checking was not deferred to after
connection was completed.  Here is a patch that fixes this, along with
supporting SO_ERROR and fixing a bug in the high-level interface to
getsockopt.  Kudos to Daniel for giving the solution and to Peter for
pointing out the problem.

(BTW, I found that TCP was broken in the development versions because it
used a message that was deprecated in 2.0 and removed there, so use the 2.0
series for your little exception handling project).

Paolo

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