From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-10-05T09:29:52+09:00
Subject: Re: pstore.rb not operating in binmode

On Tuesday, October 5, 2004, 7:12:07 AM, Henning wrote:

> Hi,

> while using the Rails web framework, I came across an
> issue with ruby/lib/pstore.rb. Rails uses the PStore class
> to store (binary) session data, but Ruby's PStore doesn't
> set its streams to binmode.

> On Windows this causes PStore to corrupt the binary
> session data.

> I also posted about the issue to
> http://www.rubyonrails.org/show/MarshalDataTooShort

> The people in #rubyonrails asked me to post a note to
> ruby-talk about this issue.

That's probably the reason I had Instiki failing big-time when running
it under Cygwin.  (Binary/non-binary data is often a problem there, as
the directory you're in could be set to use either by default.)

Gavin