From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-09-09T12:51:19+09:00
Subject: Re: IO#clone and 1.6 -> 1.8 question

Hi,

In message "IO#clone and 1.6 -> 1.8 question"
    on 03/09/09, dblack@superlink.net <dblack@superlink.net> writes:

|Just tinkering with IO#clone, in connection with some irc
|chatting, and found the following behavior which puzzles
|me.  Here's the test program:

It's combination of the two:

  * file position is shared among IO clones.  It's defined stdio
    behavior.

  * IO are buffered so that actual file pointer
    may advance more than you expected (i.e. entire "num" file was
    swallowed this case) by a single "gets".

							matz.