>>>>> "D" == David A Black <dblack / wobblini.net> writes: D> /usr/local/lib/ruby/1.8/irb/input-method.rb:97: [BUG] Segmentation D> fault D> ruby 1.8.3 (2005-09-21) [i686-linux] This is this in readline.c GetOpenFile(rb_stdout, ofp); rl_outstream = ofp->f; GetOpenFile(rb_stdin, ifp); rl_instream = ifp->f; if I'm right, it is not tested that it has a valid RFile before calling GetOpenFile() Guy Decoux