From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2006-12-21T10:52:59+09:00
Subject: Re: win32 file stat and find conflict

lrlebron@gmail.com wrote:
> I have a small snippet of code to recurse a directory which works as it
> should
> 
> require 'find'
> 
> Find::find('C:\test') do |f|
>   p f
> end
> 
> When I change it like this
> 
> require 'win32/file/stat'
> require 'find'
> 
> Find::find('C:\test') do |f|
>   p f
> end
> 
> Only the 'C:\test' directory is printed. None of the files or
> subdirectories show up.
> 
> Any ideas on how to fix this?

Don't require 'win32/file/stat' directly.  Require win32-file instead, 
which will, in turn, require win32-file-stat.

The reason is that the 'find' module is calling File.lstat internally, 
which is just a pass through method to File::Stat.  For it to work 
properly you need to use the File.lstat method that I've defined in the 
win32-file package.

I've updated the README file for win32-file-stat to explain the 
situation in a little more detail (and added a warning that you should 
never require win32-file-stat directly).

Regards,

Dan