From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-09-17T07:34:16+09:00
Subject: Re: [RCR] IO#clearerr

On Sat, 17 Sep 2005, Tanaka Akira wrote:

> In article <Pine.LNX.4.62.0509161558490.31195@harp.ngdc.noaa.gov>,
>  "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@noaa.gov> writes:
>
>> we need it.  any reason why it couldn't shouldn't be done?
>
> ruby 1.8.3 calls clearerr before getc automatically because stdio has
> non-portability about that.
>
> ruby 1.9 has no error and EOF flag to clear because it doesn't use
> stdio.

o.k. - so that should let me read past eof (multiple clients sending data down
pipe one at the time)

but i still can't write past EOF.  i want to keep some output pipes open and
simply send EOF down them (close, clearerr) to indicate no more data.  any
thought on that?

btw. ever looked at sfio?

cheers.

-a
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