From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Date: 2001-07-16T09:22:44+09:00 Subject: [ruby-talk:17896] Re: Overriding IO#close Hi, In message "[ruby-talk:17791] Overriding IO#close" on 01/07/13, pit@capitain.de writes: |Is there a way to reliably override IO#close ? No, sorry. You can use finalizers instead, if you don't need them called immediately after close. matz.