From ed2f8ea62ebe77bbb8408cb27b416c4a7f1023cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tanaka Akira <akr@fsij.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2024 22:51:24 +0900
Subject: [PATCH] [DOC] IO#close on closed IO is not an error.

---
 io.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/io.c b/io.c
index 8acb1f562e..54b60b7357 100644
--- a/io.c
+++ b/io.c
@@ -5699,6 +5699,9 @@ rb_io_close(VALUE io)
  *  If the stream was opened by IO.popen, sets global variable <tt>$?</tt>
  *  (child exit status).
  *
+ *  It is not an error to close an IO object that has already been closed.
+ *  It just returns nil.
+ *
  *  Example:
  *
  *    IO.popen('ruby', 'r+') do |pipe|