ruby-dev summary 24741-24958

[Kazuo Saito]

Hello all,

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[ruby-dev:24807] Maintainers for libraries

URABE, Syohei wrote up a list of maintainers for libraries and
extensions
bundled with the Ruby distribution. The URL is:


http://pub.cozmixng.org/~the-rwiki/rw-cgi.rb?cmd=view;
name=StdLibsMaintainers


[ruby-dev:24834] Process.getrlimit and Process.setrlimit

Tanaka, Akira proposed methods getrlimit() and setrlimit() for Process
module.
He posted a patch based on SUSv3 specification and real
implementations of get/
setrlimit() on several platforms([ruby-dev:24843]). The pacth was
committed to
CVS with rb_secure() protection by Kazuhiro NISHIYAMA.


[ruby-dev:24865] [patch] An option to exclude tests specified

U.Nakamura added a new '--exclude' option to test/unit/autorunner,
which was
proposed at [ruby-core:3363].
This option is used to skip the tests they are known to be failed and
other
developers are already working on it. It is useful for developers to
execute
all test cases during others are still working.


[ruby-dev:24896] mode for StringIO

Nobu Nakada changed StringIO.new() to accept Fixnum as the second
argument,
as same as IO.new().


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Kazuo Saito <[email protected]>