Issue #1145 has been updated by Adriano Mitre. Yes, unfortunately it still happens. Except for JRuby, all the following "rubies" have this defect: * ruby-1.9.2-p136 [ x86_64 ] * rbx-1.2.0-20101221 [ ] * ree-1.8.7-2010.02 [ x86_64 ] * ruby-1.8.7-p330 [ x86_64 ] * jruby-1.5.6 [ amd64-java ] My system: * Ubuntu 9.10 (karmic) $ uname -a Linux adriano-desktop 2.6.31-22-server #70-Ubuntu SMP Thu Dec 2 00:00:57 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/show/1145 ---------------------------------------- http://redmine.ruby-lang.org