From: Bob Alexander <balexander@...>
Date: 2001-10-25T05:56:26+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:23225] Erroneous warning: block for Proc#call is useless

Ruby sometimes invalidly outputs the warning:

        sig.rb:10: warning: block for Proc#call is useless

Some time ago I attempted to report this problem, but couldn't make a
simple test case to reproduce it. Well, it happened again and I got a
better handle on it this time -- it's related to signals. I'm using
version 1.6.5.

Below is a little test program that can repeatably produce the situation
on both Linux (Mandrake 8.0) and FreeBSD (4.0). You'll need 2 shells:

In shell 1, run "ruby -w sig.rb". The program will print its PID and
start silently looping.

In shell 2, run "ruby sig.rb PID" using the PID printed by shell 1. It
will continuously send signals to the shell 1 process, and shell 1 will
start displayng warnings. Hit ^C in shell 2, the warnings will stop.

Bob

-------- sig.rb ------------------

if pid = ARGV[0]
    pid = Integer(pid)
    while true
        Process.kill("USR1", pid)
    end
else
    puts Process.pid
    trap("USR1") {}
    while true
        open("sig.rb", "r") do |f|
            f.read()
        end
    end
end

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