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Feature #7220

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Separate IO#dup, StringIO#initialize_copy from dup(2)

Added by brixen (Brian Shirai) over 11 years ago. Updated over 3 years ago.

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Target version:
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[ruby-core:48315]

Description

Calling StringIO#initialize_copy causes the two objects to share the position, and eof status.

Is this a bug?

sasha:rubinius brian$ irb
1.9.3p286 :001 > require 'stringio'
=> true
1.9.3p286 :002 > a = StringIO.new "abcdefuq"
=> #StringIO:0x00000101016a88
1.9.3p286 :003 > b = StringIO.new
=> #StringIO:0x00000101010728
1.9.3p286 :004 > b.send :initialize_copy, a
=> #StringIO:0x00000101010728
1.9.3p286 :005 > a.pos
=> 0
1.9.3p286 :006 > b.pos
=> 0
1.9.3p286 :007 > b.getc
=> "a"
1.9.3p286 :008 > a.pos
=> 1
1.9.3p286 :009 > a.getc
=> "b"
1.9.3p286 :010 > b.pos
=> 2
1.9.3p286 :011 > b.read
=> "cdefuq"
1.9.3p286 :012 > a.eof?
=> true

Thanks,
Brian

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