From: Chad Fowler <chad@...>
Date: 2003-02-01T01:47:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Broken pipe (Errno::EPIPE)

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Robert Feldt wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> A little strange situation:
> 
> I have a ruby app which renames a bunch of files using File.rename. When I
> run it in debug mode (with "-r debug") and steps through it it works
> without problems but when I run it normally or when packed up as an exe
> with exerb I get
> 
> script.rb:778:in `rename': Broken pipe - "file.ext" (Errno::EPIPE)
> 
> after a couple of files have been renamed.
> 
> Anyone knows what can cause this behavior?
> 

I'm not seeing anything in Ruby that would cause this.  rb_file_s_rename 
doesn't provide many opportunities taht I can see.  I wonder if this could 
be a problem with mingw32/cygwin.  Any other special characteristics of 
this program?  Multithreaded, etc?

Chad