From: Robert Feldt <feldt@...>
Date: 2003-02-11T23:23:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Broken pipe (Errno::EPIPE)

On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Chad Fowler wrote:

> > 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?
>
Sorry I never answered to this one Chad. I found the bug so forgot about
this. Problem was I tried to rename files for which there were unclosed
file handles. I figured that was the problem but thought I had thouroughly
ensured that there couldn't be any open handles left. I was mistaken. ;)

Anyway thanks for trying to help,

Robert