From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2003-12-04T14:56:07+09:00
Subject: Re: bug? ruby -e 's=File.stat("/");Marshal.dump(s);'


In message "Re: bug? ruby -e 's=File.stat("/");Marshal.dump(s);'"
    on 03/12/04, Sam Roberts <sroberts@uniserve.com> writes:
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|Is it a "feature", then?
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|If so, may I ask why?

It's just because I haven't decided how to dump File::Stat object.

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

But you don't do it in C for portability, do you?

							matz.