Using the device name explicitly might also be recommended, i.e. "nul:", rather
than "nul"
On Feb 1, 2011, at 6:41 PM, Luis Lavena wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 10:35 PM, Eric Hodel <drbr...@segment7.net> wrote:
>>
>> Luis, can you verify this does not break on rubyinstaller as well?
>
> It will only affect if user has a folder named dev at the root of the
> drive, but that is highly unlikely ;-)
>
> irb(main):001:0> reader = File.open('/dev/null', 'r')
> Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - /dev/null
> from (irb):1:in `initialize'
> from (irb):1:in `open'
> from (irb):1
>
> irb(main):001:0> writer = File.open('/dev/null', 'w')
> Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - /dev/null
> from (irb):1:in `initialize'
> from (irb):1:in `open'
> from (irb):1
>
>> mkdir \dev
>
> irb(main):002:0> writer = File.open('/dev/null0', 'w')
> => #<File:/dev/null0>
>
> But it will throw the exception first due the 'r' mode been invoked first.
>
> I think we are cool ;-)
> --
> Luis Lavena
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