From: Run Paint Run Run <runrun@...>
Date: 2010-03-06T05:32:09+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:28517] Re: [Feature #1081] add File::write() 	convenience method

>> Is it intended that the length of the leading nulls are not included
>> in the return value? I assumed the second line in the example below
>> would return 3.
>>
>> ��>> File.delete('/tmp/glark') #=> 1
>> ��>> File.write('/tmp/glark','s',2) #=> 1
>> ��>> File.read('/tmp/glark') #=> "\u0000\u0000s"
>
>
> Intended. ��It currently returns the length actually written. ��The
> \u0000s are padded by seek, not write.

OK, just wanted to check. As for #binwrite, I'm also assuming that, at
least on Linux, it's intentionally ignoring the offset, treating it
instead as merely a cue to append.

>> File.delete('/tmp/offset') #=> 1
>> File.write('/tmp/offset','ruby') #=> 4
>> File.write('/tmp/offset','ruby',2) #=> 4
>> File.size('/tmp/offset') #=> 6

>> File.delete('/tmp/offset') #=> 1
>> File.binwrite('/tmp/offset','ruby') #=> 4
>> File.binwrite('/tmp/offset','ruby',2) #=> 4
>> File.size('/tmp/offset') #=> 8