From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2002-08-11T23:03:55+09:00
Subject: Re: empty file returns nil not empty string?

>>>>> "T" == =?iso-8859-1?Q?Thomas S=F8ndergaard?= <iso-8859-1> writes:

T>       assert_equal("", f.read)

 The modification is perhaps

Sat Mar 23 01:50:30 2002  Yukihiro Matsumoto  <matz@ruby-lang.org>

        * io.c (read_all): files on /proc filesystem with zero stat size,
          may have contents.


 1.6.7 call stat(), if the size == 0 it return "" and force an eof

 1.7.2 don't call stat() and it return nil when read.size == 0 and it's at
 eof 



Guy Decoux