mainloop (Irc::Bot)

    # File lib/rbot/ircbot.rb, line 863
      def mainloop
        while true
          begin
            quit if $interrupted > 0
            connect

            quit_msg = nil
            while @socket.connected?
              quit if $interrupted > 0

              # Wait for messages and process them as they arrive. If nothing is
              # received, we call the ping_server() method that will PING the
              # server if appropriate, or raise a TimeoutError if no PONG has been
              # received in the user-chosen timeout since the last PING sent.
              if @socket.select(1)
                break unless reply = @socket.gets
                @last_rec = Time.now
                @client.process reply
              else
                ping_server
              end
            end

          # I despair of this. Some of my users get "connection reset by peer"
          # exceptions that ARENT SocketError's. How am I supposed to handle
          # that?
          rescue SystemExit
            log_session_end
            exit 0
          rescue Errno::ETIMEDOUT, Errno::ECONNABORTED, TimeoutError, SocketError => e
            error "network exception: #{e.pretty_inspect}"
            quit_msg = e.to_s
          rescue BDB::Fatal => e
            fatal "fatal bdb error: #{e.pretty_inspect}"
            DBTree.stats
            # Why restart? DB problems are serious stuff ...
            # restart("Oops, we seem to have registry problems ...")
            log_session_end
            exit 2
          rescue Exception => e
            error "non-net exception: #{e.pretty_inspect}"
            quit_msg = e.to_s
          rescue => e
            fatal "unexpected exception: #{e.pretty_inspect}"
            log_session_end
            exit 2
          end

          disconnect(quit_msg)

          log "\n\nDisconnected\n\n"

          quit if $interrupted > 0

          log "\n\nWaiting to reconnect\n\n"
          sleep @config['server.reconnect_wait']
        end
      end