Bug #4354: File.realdirpath is expected to test for real file.

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: -
• Target version: 2.0.0
• ruby -v: 1.9.2-p136 and ruby 1.9.3dev (2011-02-02 trunk 30758) [i386-mingw32]

[luislavena (Luis Lavena)]

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Hello,

Comparing File.realpath behavior with File.realdirpath behavior, they don't match:

 
 $ mkdir -p ~/foo/bar
 $ cd /home/user/foo/
 $ touch a.rb
 
 $ ruby -ve "puts File.realpath('a.rb')"
 ruby 1.9.2p136 (2010-12-25 revision 30365) [i686-linux]
 /home/user/foo/a.rb
 
 $ ruby -ve "puts File.realpath('b.rb')"
 ruby 1.9.2p136 (2010-12-25 revision 30365) [i686-linux]
 -e:1:in `realpath': No such file or directory - /home/user/foo/b.rb (Errno::ENOENT)
         from -e:1:in `'
 
 $ ruby -ve "puts File.realdirpath('bar')"
 ruby 1.9.2p136 (2010-12-25 revision 30365) [i686-linux]
 /home/user/foo/bar
 
 $ ruby -ve "puts File.realdirpath('baz')"
 ruby 1.9.2p136 (2010-12-25 revision 30365) [i686-linux]
 /home/user/foo/baz
 
 $ ls -l
 total 4
 -rw-r--r-- 1 user user    0 2011-02-01 23:00 a.rb
 drwxr-xr-x 2 user user 4096 2011-02-01 23:00 bar
 
 

If 'real' is attempting to check for real files, also realdir should be behaving similar, correct?
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[akr (Akira Tanaka)]

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2011/2/2 Luis Lavena [e-mail]:

If 'real' is attempting to check for real files, also realdir should be behaving similar, correct?

The statement, "The last component of the real pathname can be nonexistent."
in the document explains the behavior.

Tanaka Akira

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[luislavena (Luis Lavena)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected

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[luislavena (Luis Lavena)]

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On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 12:32 AM, Tanaka Akira [e-mail] wrote:

2011/2/2 Luis Lavena [e-mail]:

If 'real' is attempting to check for real files, also realdir should be behaving similar, correct?

The statement, "The last component of the real pathname can be nonexistent."
in the document explains the behavior.

Thank you, somehow I missed that part, and that clarifies the behavior.

--
Luis Lavena
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Perfection in design is achieved not when there is nothing more to add,
but rather when there is nothing more to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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