[MacRuby-devel] [MacRuby] #576: It's possible to close STDOUT (and presumably other standard IO streams)

[Timothy McDowell]

I get the same IOError when I try to STDOUT.close from IRB.

On Sat, Feb 6, 2010 at 12:05 PM, MacRuby <ruby-noreply at macosforge.org>wrote:

> #576: It's possible to close STDOUT (and presumably other standard IO
> streams)
>
> -----------------------------------+----------------------------------------
>  Reporter:  matthew@…              |       Owner:  lsansonetti@…
>     Type:  defect                 |      Status:  new
>  Priority:  critical               |   Milestone:  MacRuby 0.5
> Component:  MacRuby                |    Keywords:
>
> -----------------------------------+----------------------------------------
>
> Comment(by matthew@…):
>
>  Actually I just tried this on the latest revision of 1.9.1 (p376) and I
>  get this instead:
>
>  {{{
>  $ irb
>  irb(main):001:0> STDOUT.close
>  /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb.rb:166:in `write': closed stream (IOError)
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb.rb:166:in `print'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb.rb:166:in `block (2 levels) in
>  eval_input'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb.rb:271:in `signal_status'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb.rb:154:in `block in eval_input'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb/ruby-lex.rb:244:in `block (2
>  levels) in each_top_level_statement'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb/ruby-lex.rb:230:in `loop'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb/ruby-lex.rb:230:in `block in
>  each_top_level_statement'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb/ruby-lex.rb:229:in `catch'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb/ruby-lex.rb:229:in
>  `each_top_level_statement'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb.rb:153:in `eval_input'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb.rb:70:in `block in start'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb.rb:69:in `catch'
>         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.9.1/irb.rb:69:in `start'
>         from /usr/local/bin/irb:12:in `<main>'
>  }}}
>
>  So it seems that it is now possible?  Maybe this is not an issue.
>
>  Incidentally, in the latest 1.9.1 the Logger library breaks in the same
>  way if logging to STDOUT and sent a close message.
>
> --
> Ticket URL: <http://www.macruby.org/trac/ticket/576#comment:4>
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