Urabe Shyouhei wrote: >> Would it be possible to get that file_load_ok patch backported before >> you release? > > Yes. I'll work on it today. Ryan, I hav'nt been able to reproduce this bug on 1.8.6. I suspect it doesn't hurt 1.8.7 and earlier. Can you check? zsh % mkdir -p a/foo b zsh % touch b/foo zsh % ls -ld a/* b/* drwxr-xr-x 2 shyouhei shyouhei 40 2009-03-11 21:13 a/foo -rw-r--r-- 1 shyouhei shyouhei 0 2009-03-11 21:13 b/foo zsh % ruby -v -Ia -Ib -e 'load "foo"' ruby 1.8.6 (2009-03-10 patchlevel 362) [x86_64-linux] a/foo: Is a directory - a/foo (Errno::EISDIR) from -e:1:in `load' from -e:1