[perl #83866] IO::Socket::INET Couldn't create socket.

[Cosimo Streppone via RT]

Bug still present for me in:

This is Rakudo Perl 6, version 2011.02-55-ge3bd9aa built on parrot 
3.2.0 RELEASE_3_2_0

I tried having a look at the source code, starting from the error 
message ("Can't connect closed socket"), and it seems to me that:

* the FileHandle PMC os_handle attribute is set to PIO_INVALID_HANDLE 
at initialization time
* when trying to open the socket with Parrot_io_connect_handle(), 
Parrot_io_is_closed_handle() is called, which compares the os_handle 
attribute with PIO_INVALID_HANDLE
* a match is found, so the handle is assumed to be closed, and this 
stops any attempt to connect.