From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-06-22T22:56:58+09:00
Subject: Re: In 1.8.0 nil.to_s is not the same as ""

Hi,

At Sun, 22 Jun 2003 22:37:11 +0900,
ts wrote:
>  This is really a problem :
> 
> svg% ./ruby -e 'Dir.open(String.new(nil.to_s))'
> -e:1: [BUG] Segmentation fault
> ruby 1.8.0 (2003-06-21) [i686-linux]
> 
> Aborted

Should it occur same exception as Dir.open("")?


Index: dir.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/ruby/src/ruby/dir.c,v
retrieving revision 1.85
diff -u -2 -p -r1.85 dir.c
--- dir.c	19 May 2003 15:54:37 -0000	1.85
+++ dir.c	22 Jun 2003 13:54:45 -0000
@@ -270,4 +270,8 @@ dir_initialize(dir, dirname)
 
     SafeStringValue(dirname);
+    if (!RSTRING(dirname)->len) {
+	errno = ENOENT;
+	rb_sys_fail("");
+    }
     Data_Get_Struct(dir, struct dir_data, dp);
     if (dp->dir) closedir(dp->dir);


-- 
Nobu Nakada