From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto) Date: 2003-06-06T18:20:27+09:00 Subject: Re: [1.8] $SAFE / exit Hi, In message "[1.8] $SAFE / exit" on 03/06/04, ts writes: |svg% ./ruby -ve '$SAFE = 4; exit' |ruby 1.8.0 (2003-06-03) [i686-linux] |^Z |[3]+ Stopped ./ruby -ve '$SAFE = 4; exit' |svg% | | I need to stop it with ^Z otherwise it never finish $SAFE will be turned of during finalization. matz.