This might be a bug exposed due to r36944 ("avoid unnecessary select() calls before doing I/O") which I don't want to revert. Does the following fix it? --- a/ext/socket/init.c +++ b/ext/socket/init.c @@ -400,12 +400,6 @@ rsock_connect(int fd, const struct sockaddr *sockaddr, int len, int socks) status = (int)BLOCKING_REGION_FD(func, &arg); if (status < 0) { switch (errno) { case EINTR: -#if defin