Bug #1633: ARGF#close and ARGF#skip are Often Fatal on 1.9

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: wyhaines (Kirk Haines)
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 1.9.2dev (2009-06-14 trunk 23689) [i686-linux]
• Backport: 2.5: UNKNOWN, 2.6: UNKNOWN

[runpaint (Run Paint Run Run)]

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I don't claim to fully understand this issue, but I'd like to explain some differences between ARGF#close/#skip on 1.8 and 1.9 which seem peculiar.

If ARGV is empty, ARGF refers to STDIN. On all versions ARGF#close suceeds, but ARGF#closed? returns false on 1.9; true on earlier versions.

 $ ruby86 -ve 'ARGF.close; p ARGF.closed?'
 ruby 1.8.6 (2009-03-31 patchlevel 368) [i686-linux]
 true

 $ ruby1.8 -ve 'ARGF.close; p ARGF.closed?'
 ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i486-linux]
 true

 $ ruby -ve 'ARGF.close; p ARGF.closed?'
 ruby 1.9.2dev (2009-06-14 trunk 23689) [i686-linux]
 false

Trying to #close an already closed stream raises an IOError, whereas it didn't on 1.8. Thus, you can no longer cavalierly say ARGF.close; you must instead say ARGF.close unless ARGF.closed?, or precede it with a rescue clause.

 $ ruby86 -ve 'ARGF.close; ARGF.close' file
 ruby 1.8.6 (2009-03-31 patchlevel 368) [i686-linux]

 $ ruby1.8 -ve 'ARGF.close; ARGF.close' file
 ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i486-linux]

 $ ruby -ve 'ARGF.close; ARGF.close' file
 ruby 1.9.2dev (2009-06-14 trunk 23689) [i686-linux]
 -e:1:in `close': closed stream (IOError)
from -e:1:in `close'
from -e:1:in `<main>'

This behaviour impacts ARGF#skip on 1.9, too. Worse, the error message is misleading due to refrencing 'close'; a method that the user did not invoke, thus can't be held responsible for the failure of.

 $ ruby86 -ve 'ARGF.read; ARGF.skip' file
 ruby 1.8.6 (2009-03-31 patchlevel 368) [i686-linux]
 
 $ ruby1.8 -ve 'ARGF.read; ARGF.skip' file
 ruby 1.8.7 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 72) [i486-linux]

 $ ruby -ve 'ARGF.read; ARGF.skip' file
 ruby 1.9.2dev (2009-06-14 trunk 23689) [i686-linux]
 -e:1:in `close': closed stream (IOError)
from -e:1:in `skip'
from -e:1:in `<main>'

Tangentially, a similarly odd exception is raised on all versions if ARGF#skip is invoked without files to skip to:

 $ ruby -ve 'ARGF.skip' file
 ruby 1.9.2dev (2009-06-14 trunk 23689) [i686-linux]
 -e:1:in `skip': undefined method `close' for nil:NilClass (NoMethodError)
from -e:1:in `<main>'

Given that ARGF is likely to contain a variable number of files, it may be easier if these methods returned nil when there are no more files. This would retain backward compatibility, and reduce error handling logic.
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[matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)]

• Status changed from Open to Closed
• % Done changed from 0 to 100

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Applied in changeset r23699.
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[matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)]

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Hi,

In message "Re: [ruby-core:23853] [Bug #1633] ARGF#close and ARGF#skip are Often Fatal on 1.9"
on Mon, 15 Jun 2009 06:07:37 +0900, Run Paint Run Run [e-mail] writes:

|I don't claim to fully understand this issue, but I'd like to explain some differences between ARGF#close/#skip on 1.8 and 1.9 which seem peculiar.

Both 1.9 and 1.8 have bugs:

• 1.8 ARGF.close does not call #close on T_FILE objects. It calls
  rb_io_close() directly, which does not check duplicated close.

• 1.9 IO#close does not close file descriptors 0, 1, 2. It should
  close them when close is called explicitly.

• ARGF.skip for both versions should not close if current_file is
  not initialized.

As a result:

• "ARGF.close; ARGF.closed?" should be true on 1.9.

• "ARGF.close; ARGF.close" should raise an exception on 1.8.

• "ARGF.skip" should not raise any exception on both versions.

• "ARGF.read; ARGF.skip" should not raise any exceptions.

I will check in the fix.

						matz.

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[shyouhei (Shyouhei Urabe)]

• Status changed from Closed to Assigned
• Assignee set to wyhaines (Kirk Haines)

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Should also be backported to 1.8.6.
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[jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans)]

• Tracker changed from Backport to Bug
• Project changed from Backport186 to Ruby master
• Description updated (diff)
• Status changed from Assigned to Closed
• ruby -v set to ruby 1.9.2dev (2009-06-14 trunk 23689) [i686-linux]
• Backport set to 2.5: UNKNOWN, 2.6: UNKNOWN