Ruby-dev summary 24741-24958

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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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