From: Urabe Shyouhei <shyouhei@...>
Date: 2008-04-25T13:03:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Dir.mkdir would be better if it returned a Dir object

Nikolai Weibull wrote:
> Dir.mkdir creates a directory and returns 0 on success.  It would be
> better if Dir.mkdir returned a new Dir object that wrapped the file
> descriptor that mkdir(2) returns.
>
> My immediate use case is that this would allow you to create temporary
> directories as safely as files can currently be created.
>
> I'll gladly write the patch (and even more gladly let someone else do
> it for me), but I would like input on this before I do.
>
> Thanks!
>   

Feel free to post that patch, but also note that:
(1) We already have Dir.mktmpdir once you require 'tmpdir'
(2) Don't forget Windows and other systems which don't have file 
descriptors.