From: Warren Brown <WBrown@...>
Date: 2004-05-29T04:20:29+09:00
Subject: Re: [BUG?] Seqfault sorting array of Files by ctime

Robert,


> $ cat test.rb
> dirs = Dir.glob("*/")
> dirs.sort { | x, y | File.new(x).ctime <=> File.new(y).ctime }
> dirs.each { | x | puts x + " " + File.new(x).ctime.to_s }.
>
> ...
>
> Also, why does test.rb produce the following using a native
> windows compile.
>
> C:\DEVELO~1\cygwin\home\robertm\test>ruby test.rb
> test.rb:2:in `initialize': Permission denied - a/ (Errno::EACCES)
>         from test.rb:2:in `new'
>         from test.rb:2
>         from test.rb:2:in `sort'
>         from test.rb:2


    I can't speak to your segfault issue (I can run your code fine under
cygwin on ruby 1.8.1), but the native Windows issue is easy enough.
According to Microsoft (http://tinyurl.com/2tedp), an EACCES error on
open() means:

"Tried to open read-only file for writing, or file's sharing mode does
not allow specified operations, or given path is directory"

    Basically, you can't open a directory like a file.

    I hope this helps.

    - Warren Brown