From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-10-13T05:26:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem subclassing IO and writing on Windows

On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Berger, Daniel wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Windows XP Pro
> Ruby 1.8.2
>
> The following snippet dies on Windows with:
>
> subtest.rb:8:in `write': not opened for writing (IOError)
> from subtest.rb:8:in `write_stuff'
> from subtest.rb:14
>
> Works fine on *nix.  Am I doing something wrong?  Or is this a bug?
>
> # subtest.rb
> class MyIO < IO

>   def initialize(arg)
>      super(arg)
>      binmode
>   end

   def initialize *a, &b
     super *a
     binmode
     b and b.call
   end

>
>   def write_stuff
>      write("Hello World")
>   end
> end
>
> mio = MyIO.new(File.open("test.txt","wb+").fileno)
> mio.write_stuff
> mio.close
> puts "Done"

hth.

-a
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