From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2002-08-11T23:55:02+09:00
Subject: Re: empty file returns nil not empty string?

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

T> I don't understand what you mean by "... use the default value of 8192 to
T> trying to read the file". Can you explain it in a little more detail?

 For 1.6.7 if the result of fstat == 0, ruby return "" and force eof
 For 1.7.2 if the result of fstat == 0, ruby will try to read from the file
 with a buffer of 8192 bytes (call to fread())


Guy Decoux