lib/nio/fmt.rb in nio-0.2.2 vs lib/nio/fmt.rb in nio-0.2.3

@@ -1847,10 +1847,13 @@
         neutral = x.nio_xr.nio_write_neutral(fmt)
         converted = true
       end
       if !converted 
         if fmt.get_base==10 
-          txt = x.to_s
+          # Don't use x.to_s because of bugs in BigDecimal in Ruby 1.9 revisions 20359-20797
+          # x.to_s('F') is not affected by that problem, but produces innecesary long strings
+          sgn,ds,b,e = x.split
+          txt = "#{sgn<0 ? '-' : ''}0.#{ds}E#{e}"
           
           sign = '+'    
           if txt[0,1]=='-'
             sign = '-'
             txt = txt[1...txt.length]