From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>
Date: 2003-12-04T11:36:48+09:00
Subject: Re: bug? ruby -e 's=File.stat("/");Marshal.dump(s);'

Is it a "feature", then?

If so, may I ask why?

I don't understand why a files stat would be unmarshable, even in
C I could write a stat_t to file.

Thanks,
Sam

Quoteing matz@ruby-lang.org, on Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 11:27:30AM +0900:
> In message "bug? ruby -e 's=File.stat("/");Marshal.dump(s);'"
>     on 03/12/04, Sam Roberts <sroberts@uniserve.com> writes:
> 
> |Does nobody really care that this doesn't work? Is it that its fixed in
> |1.8, or something?
> 
> Not "fixed" in 1.8 either.
> 
> 							matz.
>