From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2010-04-05T01:00:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Reading contents of all files from a Directory

On 04.04.2010 17:30, Hawksury Gear wrote:
> Hassan Schroeder wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 8:16 AM, Hawksury Gear 
>> <blackhawk_932@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> ... it gives an error message saying
>>>
>>> "Permission Denied Errno::EACCESS"
>>>
>>> Any idea why?
>> Is there a reason you don't think it means exactly what it says?
> 
> No doubt, the error message is self explanatory.
> But the actual files themselves in the directory  allow Read and Write 
> operations so they are not protected against any Read/Write operations.I 
> have asked for the read-only permission="r" which in theory it should 
> grant.

Your error is most likely caused by the fact that Dir#entries returns 
file names only, i.e. without a path.  You are trying to open different 
files than you think (most likely in the current directory).

Kind regards

	robert

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