From: Douglas Hunter <dug@...>
Date: 2003-02-01T00:05:45+09:00
Subject: Re: New to Ruby, would like a style critique - filedup.rb [0/1]

ILikeFood wrote:
> I've just written my first Ruby application (all 135 lines of it) and 
> being totally book educated, I would love for a more accomplished Ruby 
> programmer just to look over and critique my work.  


One of the reasons to follow Guy's advice and use "find.rb" is that it 
wont recursively follow symlinks that point to a directory above.  Your 
code bails with "filedup.rb:62:in `open': Too many open files - "." 
(Errno::EMFILE)" when given that test, while the find.rb code is not so 
brittle.


-- Douglas Hunter