From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-07-15T02:21:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Zlib::GzipWriter#close error

On 7/14/05, Gavin Kistner <gavin@refinery.com> wrote:
> Why is Zlib::GzipWriter#close throwing an error here? The resulting
> file comes out as desired.

I don't think that it's GZipWriter#close with the error. I think it's
the block form of File.open that's doing a close on out_file, which
may be already closed because you used GzipWriter#close.

I had similar problems with Archive::Tar::Minitar. I think that
there's a different method for GzipWriter that will "finish" the
GzipWriter instance but not close the resulting stream.

(rummage)

Here it is. Change gz.close to gz.finish.

-------------------------------------------------- Zlib::GzipFile#finish
     finish()
------------------------------------------------------------------------
     Closes the GzipFile object. Unlike Zlib::GzipFile#close, this
     method never calls the close method of the associated IO object.
     Returns the associated IO object.

-austin
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