From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Date: 2003-07-05T21:45:19+09:00 Subject: Re: File.stat.blksize returns nil and not 0 on win2k Hi, In message "File.stat.blksize returns nil and not 0 on win2k" on 03/07/05, Pierre Baillet writes: |on the 1.8.0 ruby version of the pragprog installer, File.stat(file).blksize |returns nil and not 0 on a windows 2k machine. According to the Pickaxe, it |should "return 0 on platforms that don't support this information". | |is this change intentional ? Yes. Undefined field values are nil now. matz.