From: Alex Young <alex@...>
Date: 2006-06-13T07:51:41+09:00
Subject: IO#read mode on Windows

Hi all,

Is there any way to set the default read/write mode for IO on Windows? 
I've just had a fairly nasty little bug come up where 
File.read('filename') != File.open('filename', 'rb'){|f| f.read}, so 
partial files were being read.

Are there any circumstances where it makes a practical difference (from 
Ruby's point of view) which mode a file's opened in?

-- 
Alex