From: stephen.hill@... (Steve Hill)
Date: 2001-12-05T01:23:16+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:27458] Select isn't broken (was FileTest.exist? behaviour)

Hmmm
Ok, hands up on this one, I'm a fuckwit. 

I've been having problems with strange behaviours in ruby because I'm
using an nfs mounted filesystem with different mountpoints on
different machines - which can make things quite nasty - especially as
the behaviour of ruby's Dir.chdir method appears architecture
dependent (see <a href="
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&threadm=c230c758.0110290702.c2d6ef3%40posting.google.com&rnum=2&prev=/groups%3Fas_ugroup%3Dcomp.lang.ruby%26as_uauthors%3Dstephen.hill%40motorola.com%26hl%3Den">
this thread</a>.

So, thinking I had the same sort of problem, I spent the whole morning
examining ruby source, and then found that the file in question which
is giving the problems was a link to a file that didn't exist. Duh!

Sorry folks, select isn't broken!

Steve

ts <decoux@moulon.inra.fr> wrote in message news:<200112041046.fB4Ak5D13217@moulon.inra.fr>...
> >>>>> "S" == Steve Hill <stephen.hill@motorola.com> writes:
> 
> S> irb(main):001:0> Dir["m*"]
> S> ["meta_param.txt", "ms_position.txt", "meta2.txt"]
> S> irb(main):002:0> FileTest.exist?("meta2.txt")
> S> false
> 
>  Well, you must give more information
> 
> pigeon% irb
> irb(main):001:0> Dir["y*"]
> ["y"]
> irb(main):002:0> FileTest.exist?("y")
> false
> irb(main):003:0> 
> pigeon%
>  
> pigeon% ls -l y dont_exist
> ls: dont_exist: No such file or directory
> lrwxrwxrwx    1 ts       ts             10 Dec  4 11:42 y -> dont_exist
> pigeon% 
> 
> 
> Guy Decoux