# Inspect closed dir

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/inspect-closed-dir/123632>\
**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [December 19, 2007, 11:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/inspect-closed-dir/123632 "2007-12-19T11:22:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tanaka\_A](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@Tanaka\_A](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/Tanaka_A)\
**Post date:** [December 19, 2007, 11:22am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/inspect-closed-dir/123632/1 "2007-12-19T11:22:17Z")

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close e$B$5$l$?e(B Dir e$B%$%s%9%?%s%9$re(B inspect e$B$9$k$He(B IOError  
e$B$K$J$j$^$9!#e(B

% ./ruby -ve ’  
d = Dir.open(".")  
d.close  
p d’  
ruby 1.9.0 (2007-12-19 patchlevel 0) [i686-linux]  
-e:4:in `inspect': closed directory (IOError) from -e:4:in`p’  
from -e:4:in `’

1.8 e$B$G$O$J$j$^$;$s$G$7$?!#e(B

% ruby-1.8 -ve ’  
d = Dir.open(".")  
d.close  
p d’  
ruby 1.8.6 (2007-12-14 patchlevel 5000) [i686-linux]  
#Dir:0xb7dd7ae0