On Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 05:06:47PM +0900, Jeremy Henty wrote:
> 
> I'm seeing more on Linux, eg.  a third spurious IO failure here:
> 
>     http://rubyspec.org/issues/show/39

Update,  this  was due  to  a  bug in  my  ancient  glibc that  caused
telldir() to  be wrong after a  rewinddir() .  Full  discussion at the
link above.  Sorry for the noise.

Regards, 

Jeremy Henty