including FileUtils::Verbose crashes Marshal.dump

This is a bug I ran into today. I'm not sure who's responsible for =
fixing it, but I don't personally feel up to=20
the task. I could make it a multi-day project I suppose, but I feel I =
have better things to do today, and tomorrow, =85

I'm posting this here in hopes that someone who reads this list will =
know what to do to fix it.

The bug exists in 1.9.2, 1.9.3, and 2.0.0.

I had written a class for vocabulary cards, which I Marshal.dump'ed at =
the end of each session.  Then I thought that
before I casually dumped the list a second or subsequent time, I should =
make sure that, should anything bad happen,=20
I didn't completely clobber the dump file. So, using fileutils, I made a =
backup copy before dumping, and then removed
it if things went well, or used it to restore the original file if =
things didn't go well.

I found the dump worked the first time, but each in each subsequent =
session the dump would fail, evidently because
somewhere in my object graph an IO had crept in as an instance variable. =
I was pretty sure I hadn't done that, so I had
to write some code to traverse the code and look for an IO somewhere. I =
found it, and present for your perusal a small test
file that illustrates the problem.

My problem was that I read about fileutils in the pickaxe book (for 1.9 =
and 2.0), and the example included FileUtils::Verbose,
and I figured that would be fine for starters, as I could then see what =
it was doing.

If you copy this to a file and run it, the first time it will not find =
the file ("aFoo"), won't perform the backup, and will successfully
dump the object to the file. The second time, however, it will find the =
find, use FileUtil's cp to make a backup copy, and then
try unsuccessfully to dump the file, which fails because the object =
contains an instance of IO. In the example, I catch this
exception and then go on to list the instance variables, and Whoa!, what =
the devil are those instance variables "@filutiils_label"
and "@fileutils_output" doing there?

So evidently calling the verbose version of FileUtils#cp creates, =
unbeknownst to the user, a few instance variables for its own
use. I suggest there must be a better place to keep this information. =
The problem goes away entirely if you just include FileUtils and
not FileUtils::Verbose.

Thanks for listening, here's the file. Have a nice day,

Bryan

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#!/usr/bin/env ruby
require 'fileutils'
include FileUtils::Verbose

class Foo
  def initialize(str)
    @foo =3D str
  end
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  def make_backup_copy
    cp(@foo, "#{@foo}.back") if File.exist?(@foo)
  end
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  def dump_to_file
    make_backup_copy
    puts "dumping to file #{@foo}"
    begin
      File.open(@foo, "w") { |file| Marshal.dump(self, file) }
    rescue Exception =3D> exc
      puts exc
      return
    end
    puts "dumped to file #{@foo}"
  end
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end
f =3D Foo.new("aFoo")
f.dump_to_file
puts "instance variables are now #{f.instance_variables}"
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and here's the output from running it twice:

18:18 cards:>./tester.rb=20
dumping to file aFoo
dumped to file aFoo
instance variables are now [:@foo]
18:18 cards:>./tester.rb=20
cp aFoo aFoo.back
dumping to file aFoo
can't dump IO
instance variables are now [:@foo, :@fileutils_output, =
:@fileutils_label]