From: Eric Wong Date: 2011-03-28T14:06:17+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:35566] [Ruby 1.9 - Feature #4532][Open] [PATCH] add IO#pread and IO#pwrite methods Issue #4532 has been reported by Eric Wong. ---------------------------------------- Feature #4532: [PATCH] add IO#pread and IO#pwrite methods http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/4532 Author: Eric Wong Status: Open Priority: Normal Assignee: Category: core Target version: 1.9.x These methods are useful for safe/concurrent file I/O in multi-thread/process environments and also fairly standard nowadays especially in systems supporting pthreads. pread() is already used internally for IO.copy_stream -- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org