From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2003-06-23T22:06:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Marshal bug?

Anders Borch wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> why is this happening to me:
> 
> $ irb
> irb(main):001:0> a=File.new('somefile','r')
                                           ^^  read-only file
> => #<File:0xa052078>
> irb(main):002:0> Marshal.dump(a.stat)
> TypeError: can't dump File::Stat
>         from (irb):2:in `dump'
>         from (irb):2
> irb(main):003:0>
> 
> are File::Stat objects not marshallable? (is that a word?)
>