From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2003-11-20T18:02:14+09:00
Subject: Re: [BUG] File#rewind, File#syswrite, File#pos on Cygwin build


"Alan Davies" <NOSPAMcs96and@yahoo.co.ukNOSPAM> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:3fba526d@primark.com...
> On the cygwin build of ruby v1.8.0, I have encountered a strange bug
> when using rewind, syswrite and pos.  If you open a file in read/write
> mode, read the contents, rewind, syswrite some data, then File#pos
> always seems to return zero.  This does not happen if you use the
> windows build, or you replace 'syswrite' with 'write'.

"Do not mix with other methods that write to ios or you may get
unpredictable results."
http://www.rubycentral.com/book/ref_c_io.html#IO.syswrite

    robert