Backport #2057: Strange behavior IO#ungetc at the beginning of the stream

• Status: Closed
• Priority: Normal
• Assignee: nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)

[yugui (Yuki Sonoda)]

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Issue cloned from #1909.

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This works:
io = File.open("a.txt", "r+")
io.read(0)
p io.pos # => 0
io.ungetc(100)
p io.pos # => 0

while this doesn't:
io = File.open("a.txt", "r+")
p io.pos # => 0
io.ungetc(100) # => unread stream (IOError)

I would expect the first case to raise the same error as the second one since ungetc is supposed to shift the position back by 1 and we are at the beginning of the stream.

In ruby 1.9.1p129 (2009-05-12 revision 23412) [i386-mswin32] neither case raises an exception, which is at least consistent but still weird.
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[ujihisa (Tatsuhiro Ujihisa)]

• Status changed from Open to Assigned
• Assignee set to nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)

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[jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans)]

• ruby -v deleted (ruby 1.8.6 (2008-08-11 patchlevel 287) [i386-mswin32])
• Status changed from Assigned to Closed
• Description updated (diff)
• Project changed from Ruby 1.8 to Backport187
• Tracker changed from Bug to Backport