[#11890] Ruby and Solaris door library — "Hiro Asari" <asari.ruby@...>

Hi, there. This is my first patch against ruby. I think I followed

19 messages 2007/08/13
[#11892] Re: Ruby and Solaris door library — Daniel Berger <djberg96@...> 2007/08/14

Hiro Asari wrote:

[#11899] pack/unpack 64bit Integers — Hadmut Danisch <hadmut@...>

Hi,

13 messages 2007/08/14
[#11903] Re: pack/unpack 64bit Integers — Brian Candler <B.Candler@...> 2007/08/15

On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 06:50:01AM +0900, Hadmut Danisch wrote:

[#11948] Fibers in Ruby 1.9? — David Flanagan <david@...>

I just noticed that my ruby1.9 build of August 17th includes a Fiber

22 messages 2007/08/22
[#11949] Re: Fibers in Ruby 1.9? — Daniel Berger <djberg96@...> 2007/08/22

David Flanagan wrote:

[#11950] Re: Fibers in Ruby 1.9? — "Francis Cianfrocca" <garbagecat10@...> 2007/08/22

On 8/22/07, Daniel Berger <djberg96@gmail.com> wrote:

[#11952] Re: Fibers in Ruby 1.9? — MenTaLguY <mental@...> 2007/08/22

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007 20:50:12 +0900, "Francis Cianfrocca" <garbagecat10@gmail.com> wrote:

[#11988] String#length not working properly in Ruby 1.9 — "Vincent Isambart" <vincent.isambart@...>

I saw that Matz just merged his M17N implementation in the trunk.

17 messages 2007/08/25
[#11991] Re: String#length not working properly in Ruby 1.9 — "Michael Neumann" <mneumann@...> 2007/08/25

On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 10:54:20 +0200, Yukihiro Matsumoto

[#11992] Re: String#length not working properly in Ruby 1.9 — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2007/08/25

Hi,

[#12042] Encodings of string literals; explicit codepoint escapes? — David Flanagan <david@...>

This message contains queries that probably only Matz can answer:

16 messages 2007/08/31
[#12043] Re: Encodings of string literals; explicit codepoint escapes? — Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...> 2007/08/31

Hi,

Re: Ruby and Solaris door library

From: Hugh Sasse <hgs@...>
Date: 2007-08-16 14:23:26 UTC
List: ruby-core #11915
On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Hiro Asari wrote:

> On 8/15/07, Berger, Daniel <Daniel.Berger@qwest.com> wrote:
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Hiro Asari [mailto:asari.ruby@gmail.com]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, August 14, 2007 7:04 AM
> > > To: ruby-core@ruby-lang.org
> > > Subject: Re: Ruby and Solaris door library
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > >
> > > > I think this is best done as a 3rd party library given that it's
> > > > specific to one platform.
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > >
> > > > Dan
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > Hi, Dan,
> > >
> > > Now that Solaris is open source, it is conceivable that door
> > > library will be ported to another platform, much like ZFS.
> >
> > When it actually *is* ported, and people *actually* use it, then we
> > should consider merging it into core. Until then, I vote no.
> 
> I wonder if anyone other than Dan and Urabe-san has opinions.

I see the wisdom of the YAGNI approach, but solaris is out there, 
and having this in the code base will remind others of related edge
cases, so having it in would act as a force pushing developers in a
direction where it will be easier to add for other systems later.

I'm thinking about the case of the Unix developer who created a
directory containing single character filenames for all the legal
characters in a Unix filename, and that the directory stayed there
for a long time, tripping inadequately tested programs, helping to
make them more robust. I forget who this was now, and which book I
read it in, but I think it was one of Programming Pearls, The Art of
Unix Programming, or The Practice of Programming,

The analogy is less than exact, so my conclusion (that adding it
would be good) may be false.
> -- 
> Hirotsugu Asari

        Thank you,
        Hugh

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