From: "SHULTZ,BARRY (HP-Israel,ex1)" <barry_shultz@...>
Date: 2001-09-26T20:59:31+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:21717] Re: Problem with directory? Re: Path walkin	g on windows

I'm running the same Ruby, under Win95 4.00.950r-7 and I'm not getting
any "false negatives" using FileTest.directory? . Can you characterize 
the problem directories in some way?

Barry
> 
> It runs without detecting an error, but it misidentifies actual 
> directories as normal files.
> (Again, this is on a Win95 4.00.950 B system.)
> $ ruby -v
> ruby 1.6.3 (2001-03-19) [i386-cygwin]
> 
> (Though it doesn't matter whether I run ruby under dos or 
> cygwin, or even directly from RubyWin .. the exact same result 
> obtains.)
> 
> > Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 15:31:02 +0900
> > From: "SHULTZ,BARRY (HP-Israel,ex1)" <barry_shultz@hp.com>
> > To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org (ruby-talk ML)
> > 
> > 
> > Hi Charles,
> > 
> >  It works for me if I change
> > 
> > if  test("d?", x)
> > 
> > to
> > 
> > if FileTest.directory?(x)
> > 
> > HTH,
> > Barry
> > 
> > 
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Charles Hixson [mailto:charlesh@pop.newsguy.com]
> >> Sent: Sunday, September 23, 2001 5:43 AM
> >> To: ruby-talk@ruby-lang.org
> >> Subject: [ruby-talk:21578] Re: Problem with directory? Re:
> >> Path walking
> >> on windows
> >>
> >>
> >> class Dir
> >> def walk (prefix = nil, &walker)
> >> e = self.entries
> >> e.delete "."; e.delete ".."
> >> if prefix
> >> e.collect! {|x| File.join(prefix, x) }
> >> end
> >>
> >> if block_given?
> >> e.each {|x|
> >> print "Processing <<#{x}>> "
> >> #       afile = File.lstat(x)
> >> #       puts afile.inspect
> >> #       f = File.ftype(afile)
> >> #       puts f.inspect
> >> #       if f.directory? then
> >> #       if f == "directory"	then
> >> if  test("d?", x)
> >> Dir.new(x).walk x, &walker
> >> else
> >> puts "#{x} is not a directory."
> >> end
> >> yield x
> >> }
> >> end
> >>
> >> nil
> >> end
> >> end
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> -- 
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