From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>
Date: 2003-11-03T05:20:01+09:00
Subject: Re: How can I marshall File::Stat, and do file tests?

Seems to be a long-standing oddity, discussed in ruby-talk #74175 and
#74162, but I still can't find a resolution to it.

Still searching...

Sam

Quoteing sroberts@uniserve.com, on Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 12:08:34PM +0900:
> Basically, I'm building a Hash of paths to their File::Stat, and
> Marshal.dumping it. Later I'll load it, and 
> compare the current filesystem state to the state I saved.
> 
> Simple, right? 
> 
> But, I can't marshall File::Stat, it's not allowed/supported.
> 
> Irritating, but no problem, I'll build a Struct with all the values from
> the File::Stat that I want to save, and put that in the Hash instead,
> right?
> 
> Well, that doesn't work so well, either.  Now when I load that, I have
> no way to construct a File::Stat out of my own data (it lacks a "new"),
> and I lose all of File::Stats handy methods to see what kind of file it
> is, and its permissions, etc.
> 
> Any suggestions? Can I define my own _load() and _dump() for File::Stat?
> Is that the right way? Am I not allowed to marshall File::Stat because
> its contents are system specific?
> 
> Thanks for any pointers on how to deal with this,
> Sam
> 
>