From: Hal Fulton <rubyhacker@...>
Date: 2009-11-03T08:57:09+09:00
Subject: Re: StringIO and reopen

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By "Should it?" I mean "in the future" -- I'm not implying there's
a bug now.

That is, I'm aware of how it works now. I'm just questioning whether
it is worth changing.

I believe it should be possible in theory to make it work -- though
as I said, I haven't dig into the source.

Hal Fulton


On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 5:44 PM, Charles Oliver Nutter
<headius@headius.com>wrote:

> StringIO is not actually an IO object; it just mimics one. Unless
> reopen worked with non-descriptor IO-like objects (as in JRuby), it
> would not be possible to IO#reopen against a StringIO.
>
> On Monday, November 2, 2009, Hal Fulton <rubyhacker@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I've noticed (via  my friend Taylor Carpenter) that IO#reopen
> > doesn't work for a StringIO object.
> >
> > Should it?
> >
> > I haven't dug into the source yet, but my guess is that it would
> > be easy to implement...
> >
> >
> > Hal Fulton
> >
>
>

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