Bug #5954: IO.read_nonblock on IO.pipe generates Errno::EBADF (MinGW)

[Luis Lavena]

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The following example seems not to work under Windows:

r, w = IO.pipe

w.write "awesome" * 10

puts r.read_nonblock(8)

r.close
w.close

C:\Users\Luis>ruby -v t.rb
ruby 1.9.3p0 (2011-10-30) [i386-mingw32]
t.rb:5:in read_nonblock': Bad file descriptor (Errno::EBADF)
from t.rb:5:in'

What is not clear is that using StringIO works:

require "stringio"

b = StringIO.new

b.write "awesome" * 10
b.rewind

puts b.read_nonblock(8)

b.close

C:\Users\Luis>ruby -v t2.rb
ruby 1.9.3p0 (2011-10-30) [i386-mingw32]
awesomea

Perhaps pipes are not open properly? Is this supported under Windows?
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[Shyouhei Urabe]

• Status changed from Open to Assigned

[Usaku NAKAMURA]

• Target version changed from 1.9.3 to Next Major

[Nobuyoshi Nakada]

• Description updated (diff)

[Luis Lavena]

Hello usa, nobu.

I've hit this issue with several project again.

Can you confirm or reject if this failure is intended or a bug? That way I can decide jump into the code or not (as IO is not my strongest field)

Thank you.

[Nobuyoshi Nakada]

It's natural.
Windows doesn't support non-blocking mode on other than sockets.

[Luis Lavena]

• Status changed from Assigned to Rejected

Thank you nobu, this is a platform limitation then.