From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-04-26T10:54:03+09:00
Subject: Re: strerror in Ruby?

Hi,

At Fri, 26 Apr 2002 06:56:47 +0900,
Rod Schmidt wrote:
> Is there a way to get an error message for an errno in Ruby. I'm looking for
> similiar functionality as strerror() in C?

Raised exceptions from syscalls have message, isn't it good
enough?

  $ ruby -e 'open("nothing") rescue puts $!.message'
  No such file or directory - "nothing"

Or you need the whole mapping from errno to messages?

-- 
Nobu Nakada