From: Matthew Pounsett <matt@...>
Date: 2010-07-20T05:02:18+09:00
Subject: Adding to the Errno module

[accidentally posted this from an non-subscribed address a few minutes ago .. hopefully it doesn't show up twice]

I'm trying to add some missing handlers to the Errno module on my system.  But, clearly I'm missing something here, as I'm getting an error I don't understand when I try a raise using any of them.

My test code:

irb(main):001:0> module Errno
irb(main):002:1> class EFTYPE < SystemCallError; end
irb(main):003:1> end
=> nil
irb(main):004:0> raise Errno::EFTYPE, "trying to raise an error here", caller
TypeError: can't convert Module into Integer
	from (irb):4:in `initialize'
	from (irb):4:in `exception'
	from (irb):4:in `raise'
	from (irb):4
	from /opt/local/bin/irb:12:in `<main>'
irb(main):005:0> 

I'm using things like the webrick standard library as an example here, but clearly I've got something wrong.  Anyone have any suggestions?

Matt