From: Yusuke ENDOH <mame@...>
Date: 2010-03-19T18:30:19+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:28772] Re: [Feature #2250] IO::for_fd() objects' 	finalization dangerously closes underlying fds

Hi,

2010/3/19 Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@ruby-lang.org>:
> Mike didn't seem to agree it. If he compromises with it, I'll
> commit it soon.

Regardless of whether he agrees or not :-), the feature or substitute is
actually needed in the case he mentioned, isn't it?

I thought this issue is urgent because it is difficult for users to avoid
this issue by some workaround.  If it is not, I'll change the target to
1.9.x.


> My opinion is:
> * agreed that the way not to close automatically would be
>   necessary in some case
> * but it can't be default because of backward compatibility,
> * and, bare fd should not appear in ruby level elementarily
>   therefore it's an issue of such extension library.

Completely agreed.

-- 
Yusuke ENDOH <mame@tsg.ne.jp>