From: 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@...>
Date: 2009-02-05T10:19:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Dir.foreach() crash

unknown wrote:
> I am getting the following error:
> 
> D:/BackupScripts/trimMachines.rb:130:in `open': Invalid argument - x:\.
> \data\dubinin\vmap\v1180\soamafr\lib_180\trans\k\f\g\e (Errno::EINVAL)
>
> I've checked and the directory mentioned does exist, the user account
> has full access to the directory, the directory is not empty, the
> directory name is < 255 chars long, etc.
> 
> This script works for millions of files with directories that have
> much longer names and many more subdirectories than this example
> failure. The failures happen routinely after a few days of running the
> script and always on different directories.
>
> Does anyone have a clue what the problem could be? Is this a Ruby bug?

Forward slashes are dangerous in strings because things like \v are
escape characters?
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