Bug #906: File.close not working good in Windows http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/906 Author: Yong Lu Status: Open, Priority: Normal I'm not sure this is a bug or not.I use Windows Vista. I found that I could reopen a file many times and pass them to different variables. If I want to delete the file I have to close them all. for example: f1=File.new("test.txt") f2=File.open("test.txt") #f1.close f2.close File.delete "test.txt" it would cause an Error like "Permission Denied" unless I remove the # ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org