From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2004-10-29T19:03:11+09:00
Subject: Re: BUG in File

Hi,

At Fri, 29 Oct 2004 18:45:20 +0900,
leon breedt wrote in [ruby-talk:118234]:
> module X
>   class TestFile < ::File
>     def initialize
>       $stderr.puts self.path
>     end
>   end
> end
> f = X::TestFile.new

Should it return Qnil or raise an exception?


Index: file.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/ruby/src/ruby/file.c,v
retrieving revision 1.189
diff -U2 -p -d -r1.189 file.c
--- file.c	23 Oct 2004 15:40:58 -0000	1.189
+++ file.c	29 Oct 2004 10:02:09 -0000
@@ -139,4 +139,7 @@ rb_file_path(obj)
 
     fptr = RFILE(rb_io_taint_check(obj))->fptr;
+    if (!fptr) {
+	rb_raise(rb_eIOError, "uninitialized stream");
+    }
     if (!fptr->path) return Qnil;
     return rb_tainted_str_new2(fptr->path);


-- 
Nobu Nakada