From: Motohiro KOSAKI Date: 2011-04-04T19:12:39+09:00 Subject: [ruby-core:35608] [Ruby 1.9 - Feature #4532][Assigned] [PATCH] add IO#pread and IO#pwrite methods Issue #4532 has been updated by Motohiro KOSAKI. Status changed from Open to Assigned Assignee set to Yukihiro Matsumoto Hi I personally still dislike pread/pwrite method name, but I give up to argue it because I'm worry about making endless discussion. Let's assign this ticket to matz and hear his opinions. :) ---------------------------------------- Feature #4532: [PATCH] add IO#pread and IO#pwrite methods http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/4532 Author: Eric Wong Status: Assigned Priority: Normal Assignee: Yukihiro Matsumoto 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