From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2008-04-06T03:00:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Sigsegv out of Dir.pos in ruby_1_8 branch

 > -----Original Message-----
> From: Vladimir Sizikov [mailto:vsizikov@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Saturday, April 05, 2008 11:43 AM
> To: ruby-core@ruby-lang.org
> Subject: Sigsegv out of Dir.pos in ruby_1_8 branch
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The latest branch 1_8, Ubuntu Linux x32. Ruby can't complete 
> the round of "rubyspecs" tests, it sigsegvs:
> 
> #>mspec/bin/mspec ci -f s -t /opt/ruby1.8/bin/ruby 
> spec/ruby/1.8/core/dir/pos_spec.rb
> 
> Dir#pos
> - returns an Integer representing the current position in the 
> directory
> - returns a different Integer if moved from previous position
> 
> Dir#pos
> ./spec/ruby/1.8/core/dir/shared/closed.rb:7: [BUG] 
> Segmentation fault ruby 1.8.6 (2008-04-05) [i686-linux]
> 
> Aborted
> 
> Here's a minimized example:
> 
> d = Dir.open('/tmp')
> d.close
> d.pos
> 
> (irb):5: [BUG] Segmentation fault
> ruby 1.8.6 (2008-04-05) [i686-linux]

I cannot replicate this on Windows XP Pro or RHEL.
 
> You see, the rubyspecs *are* useful, they do find bugs and 
> are good to be executing on periodic basis.

I think you found a bug in your build of Ruby or in your Linux distro.

Regards,

Dan


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