Hi,
In message "IO#clone and 1.6 -> 1.8 question"
on 03/09/09, dblack@superlink.net <dblack@superlink.net> writes:
|Just tinkering with IO#clone, in connection with some irc
|chatting, and found the following behavior which puzzles
|me. Here''s the test program:
It''s combination of the two:
* file position is shared among IO clones. It''s defined stdio
behavior.
* IO are buffered so that actual file pointer
may advance more than you expected (i.e. entire "num" file was
swallowed this case) by a single "gets".
matz.