From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2006-08-20T13:34:01+09:00
Subject: Dir.bitbucket?

Hi all,

Occasionally I have to do something like this:

bitbucket = RUBY_PLATFORM.match('mswin') ? 'NUL' : '/dev/null'

How about a Dir.bitbucket method? Or Dir.null, or whatever you want to 
call it.

I think the code, using pure Ruby, would look like this:

case RUBY_PLATFORM
   when /mswin/i
      'NUL'
   when /amiga/i
      'NIL:'
   when /openvms/i
      'NL:'
   else
      '/dev/null'
end

I based this on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki//dev/null

Useful?  If so, we could easily patch dir.c, though I'm not sure what 
the best way to approach it would be, i.e. should we do platform checks 
within the code or rely on constants set during the build phase?

Regards,

Dan