From: Ryan Davis <ryand-ruby@...>
Date: 2011-04-08T14:10:27+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:35657] Re: [Ruby 1.8 - Bug #4563][Rejected] Dir#tell broken


On Apr 7, 2011, at 17:40 , Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:

> 
> Issue #4563 has been updated by Nobuyoshi Nakada.
> 
> Status changed from Open to Rejected
> 
> What's "the correct value" you think?
> 
> ----------------------------------------
> Bug #4563: Dir#tell broken
> http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/4563
> 
> Author: Daniel Berger
> Status: Rejected
> Priority: Normal
> Assignee: 
> Category: 
> Target version: 
> ruby -v: ruby 1.8.7 (2011-02-18 patchlevel 334) [i686-linux]
> 
> 
> Dir#tell is not returning the correct value after a read: 
> 
> dir = Dir.new(Dir.pwd)
> p dir.tell # => 0
> dir.read
> p dir.tell # => 56334832

fwiw, seems sane on osx:

>> dir = Dir.new(Dir.pwd)
=> #<Dir:/Users/ryan>
>> dir.tell
=> 0
>> dir.read
=> "."
>> dir.tell
=> 1

If I had to guess, maybe Dan is seeing the inode# ?