From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2009-02-16T00:11:43+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:22150] Re: [Bug #1162] Build Assertion Failure with VC+++ - Incorrect flushing of stdout/stderr

Hi,

At Sun, 15 Feb 2009 16:24:24 +0900,
Charlie Savage wrote in [ruby-core:22134]:
> As Microsoft's documentation states (see link above), it is
> incorrect to pass stdout or stderr to FlushFileBuffers.
> Therefore FlushFileBuffers fails and retval is set to 6 via
> the call to GetLastError.  From
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms681382(VS.85).aspx:

Yes, it's a reasonable and expected behavior.

> So the assertion fails.  Bad error message I agree, but still a bug in Ruby. 

It's not a bug, the file descriptor is not invalid, nor closed.
Just a false positive assertion, e.g., a bug of msvcrt.

-- 
Nobu Nakada