From: Julian Leviston <julian@...>
Date: 2009-02-05T11:00:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Dir.foreach() crash

You mean backslashes. Yeah, use File::SEPARATOR or just use explicit  
strings - ie single quoted

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On 05/02/2009, at 12:19 PM, 7stud -- <bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> wrote:

> 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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