From: Bob X <bobx@...>
Date: 2002-10-22T18:56:33+09:00
Subject: Re: What I did (was Re: functional Ruby equiv to this perl snippet)

<dblack@candle.superlink.net> wrote in message
news:Pine.LNX.4.44.0210212217300.26314-100000@candle.superlink.net...
> Hi --
>
> On Tue, 22 Oct 2002, Bob X wrote:
>
> > Here is what I did...with your help and looking through different ways
to
> > handle stuff.
> >
> > # get the servers out of the file
> > def load_server_list
> >   servers = []
> >   filename = 'serverlist.txt'
> >   if FileTest.exist?(filename)
> >     File.open(filename).each do |line|
>
> Just to point out that you're introducing a wee race condition,
> because it's possible for the file to be deleted (by another process)
> between the exist? test and the open.  This may not be a practical
> consideration in this case, but it's probably not a good construct to
> use in general.
I had not thought of that actually. I will be the user of the script but I
guess you never know where they actually can go.

Bob