From: Chad Fowler <chadfowler@...>
Date: 2003-02-12T00:51:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Broken pipe (Errno::EPIPE)

Robert Feldt wrote:

>On Sat, 1 Feb 2003, Chad Fowler wrote:
>
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>>>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?
>>
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>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
>
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Thanks, Robert.  No problem.  I wonder if this is a situation where we 
could have a more descriptive error message.

Thoughts everyone?

Chad