From: hipster <hipster@...4all.nl>
Date: 2001-08-22T20:34:58+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20107] Re: File.stat not working?

On Wed, 22 Aug 2001  20:28:28 +0900, Roger Lipscombe wrote:
> >   #!/usr/bin/env ruby
> >
> >   puts File.stat(".").directory?
> >
> > Doesn't work.  I get a Struct::Stat returned from File.stat, rather than
> the
> > documented File::Stat, and the call to directory? results in a NameError.
> 
> Hmmm.  Further investigation reveals that this _does_ work on Win32, but
> fails to work on Linux (Debian potato).  irb (which has the same problem) is
> the same version on both installations.

Debian potato, libc6-2.2.3-5, ruby 1.6.4, kernel 2.4.9

lorentz:~/src/lisp$ ruby -e 'puts File.stat(".").directory?'
true


        Michel