From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2008-07-31T16:26:47+09:00
Subject: Re: IO.pos bug?

Hi,

At Thu, 31 Jul 2008 10:31:24 +0900,
Peņa, Botp <botp@delmonte-phil.com> wrote in [ruby-talk:309630]:
> i seem to remember (don't know where/when) that you must not
> mix low level calls like #sysread w highlevel calls like
> #pos, use #read with #pos, or use #sysread w #sysseek
> 
> but i guess we need a confirmation fr the core dev to verify
> that. Nobu perhaps?

You're correct, it depends on underlying libc, since 1.8 uses
stdio.  1.9 has its own buffering mechanism and doesn't have
that issue.

-- 
Nobu Nakada