From: Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@...>
Date: 2006-08-07T06:59:15+09:00
Subject: Re: How to redirect a string to stdin within code?

Alex Young <alex@blackkettle.org> writes:

>> However this seems an IRB issue Logans code just works fine in pure ruby
> Yes...  I can see why it's not allowed in IRB (if you get rid of
> stdin, how the hell would you use the console? :-), I just don't know
> why it segfaults.

Just a guess: the readline extensions directly accesses $stdin without
checking its type.

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