From: Eric Wong Date: 2014-09-03T06:16:28+00:00 Subject: [ruby-core:64726] Re: [ruby-trunk - Feature #10181] [Open] New method File.openat() We already have opendir (in the form of Dir.open), so would Dir.at would be an alias of Dir.open? I do not like aliases since they makes reading/searching code harder. But I think we should use Dir.open instead of File.open/File.new for openat, and also support Dir#fileno: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9880