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Feature #16962

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Make IO.for_fd autoclose option default to false

Added by ioquatix (Samuel Williams) almost 4 years ago. Updated almost 3 years ago.

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[ruby-core:98825]

Description

I discussed this with @Eregon (Benoit Daloze) and I think the goal here is to try and figure out a way these interfaces can be a bit less confusing.

1. I don't understand this behaviour:

STDOUT.close
STDOUT.puts "Hello World"
# => closed stream

vs

IO.for_fd(STDOUT.fileno, autoclose: true).close
STDOUT.puts "Hello World"
# => Hello World

2. IO.for_fd(..., autoclose: true/false)

The documentation for autoclose is:

If the value is false, the fd will be kept open after this IO instance gets finalized.

But it also seems to affect #close - i.e. calling close does not close underlying file descriptor.

Should we fix the documentation or is the implementation wrong? Maybe the name autoclose: is very confusing. My initial interpretation was it was just 'automatically close this I/O when it is garbage collected'.

3. IO.for_fd(..., autoclose: false) default

In most cases, it seems like autoclose: false would make more sense as the default, since the file descriptor must come from some other place.

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