From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2003-03-12T06:17:28+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby-dev summary 19711 - 19772

Hi,

At Wed, 12 Mar 2003 03:17:02 +0900,
Paul Brannan wrote:
> > Akira also requested to make IO#pipe and IO#popen call IO#initialize
> > to add original initialization codes. Nobu Nakada replied that it is
> > not recommended because that change may break IO's features as a
> > "wrapper" of FILE*.
> 
> What are "original initialization codes"?

According to [ruby-dev:19717], he seems to be trying original
buffering behavior.

> I do not understand why calling IO#initialize would break IO's features
> as a wrapper of FILE*.  Can you elaborate on this?

Overriding #initialize method means to expose the parameters to
Ruby level, howeber, raw FILE* pointers are used in IO#popen
under some platforms (other than UNIX and Windows) in the
current implementation.  It can be very dangerous.

-- 
Nobu Nakada