From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-09-11T06:19:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Is this expected behavior?

On Sep 10, 2007, at 4:03 PM, Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:

> Hi,
>
> At Tue, 11 Sep 2007 02:16:59 +0900,
> James Edward Gray II wrote in [ruby-core:12118]:
>> As part of TextMate's development process we have an application on a
>> (password protected) network mounted disk.  This causes Ruby to issue
>> many warnings about world writable directories do to everything
>> having pseudo +w permissions.
>
> What's the platform?

Mac OS X.

>> We tried to set RUBYOPT as a workaround, and found this:
>>
>>    $ RUBYOPT=-W0 ruby -e 'puts "Oops"'
>>    ruby: illegal switch in RUBYOPT: -W (RuntimeError)
>>
>> Is this expected behavior?
>
> The check for RUBYOPT might be forgotten when -W was added.  I
> don't see enough reasons not to allow it, as far as -w is
> allowed.

Great.  It sure would be cool if we could add it.

James Edward Gray II