From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2009-12-12T04:08:26+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby 1.9.1 mingw32 under Windows

On Dec 11, 2:34 pm, Andrei Tuzhilin <overri...@yandex.ru> wrote:
> I've tried using ruby 1.9.1 compiled with mingw32 and had the following
> error:
>
> f = File.open('C:/1.tst', 'w') => #<File:C:/1.tst>
> f.truncate(0) => 0
> f.truncate(10)
> Errno::EINVAL: Invalid argument - C:/1.tst
>         from (irb):4:in `truncate'
>         from (irb):4
>         from
> D:/Tuzhilin/ruby/ruby-1.9.1-p129-i386-mingw32/bin/irb.bat:20:in `<main>'
>
> This code works perfectly on win32 version or 1.8.6-mingw32,
> 1.8.7-mingw32. Furthermore, this:
>
> File.truncate('C:/1.tst', 10) => 0
>
> works perfect as well.
>
> Tried different builds of 1.9.1 and different versions of mingw32 gcc
> compiler, no use =/

If you believe this is a bug of Ruby, please test latest 1.9.1
patchlevel (243 or 376) and report it to Redmine:

http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/
http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/projects/show/ruby-191

--
Luis Lavena