From: kjana@...4lab.to (YANAGAWA Kazuhisa)
Date: 2002-01-21T20:40:45+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Mnemonic 0.8

In message <3C4B9948.9010806@papermountain.org>
hensleyl@papermountain.org writes:

> > I just tried it and had to change a few things to make it work:
> > * disabled the use of fsync in CommandIO.rb. My ruby 1.6.4 doesn't know
> > this method. Was it implemented in a more recent release?
> 
> 
> fsync is a feature that has recently been discussed in [ruby-talk:31442] 
> and will hopefully be added to standard Ruby in the near future.  I have 
> a patch that adds it to 1.6.6 at
> http://www.papermountain.org/twiki/bin/view/Stuff/RubyFsyncPatch
> This is discussed in the README file and the documentation.  I'll add it 
> to the project page also.

Probably you should make an extension module providing IO#fsync rather
than patching the interpreter.  Then you can write:

    require "fsync" unless IO.instance_methods.include? "fsync"

or such like at the head of your library....


-- 
kjana@dm4lab.to                               January 21, 2002
So many men, so many minds.