[ruby-core:31447] Re: [Backport #3602] stdout not set in rubyw.exe, causes silent failures

On 22 Jul 2010, at 15:59, Justin Fitzsimmons wrote:

> Backport #3602: stdout not set in rubyw.exe, causes silent failures
> http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/3602
> 
> Author: Justin Fitzsimmons
> Status: Open, Priority: Normal
> 
> Attempting to write anything to stdout will cause the program to silently crash when executed with rubyw.exe on windows.
> 
> The problem is trivial to duplicate:
> 
> Source:
> 
> f = File.new("test.txt", "w")
> f.write("failure")
> f.close
> puts "Hello, World"
> f = File.new("test.txt", "w")
> f.write("success")
> f.close
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Execution output:
> 
> C:\>ruby test.rb
> Hello, World
> 
> C:\>type test.txt
> success
> 
> 
> C:\>rubyw test.rb
> 
> C:\>type test.txt
> failure
> 
> -----END OUTPUT----------------
> 
> This bug is not present in the 1.9.1 build of ruby for windows. A workaround is available, by providing a valid file descriptor for stdout, e.g. $stdout = File.new("stdout.txt", "w").

I might recommend a sane default being actually to set them to IO.new("NUL:", ..) on win32.

Defaulting to anything else either causes silent crashes due to ruby code, or potentially due to filesystem access issues.