From: "సూర్యం" <sunaku@...>
Date: 2008-04-08T04:09:33+09:00
Subject: Re: unable to set $0 from C extension

On Apr 7, 11:50 am, Eric Hodel <drbr...@segment7.net> wrote:
> On Apr 6, 2008, at 10:38 AM, Suraj N. Kurapati wrote:
> >>> any modifications to $0 from Ruby code are raising a
> >>> "RuntimeError: $0 not initialized".
>
> > A simpler solution would be to disable the hookedness of $0
> > altogether, so that there are no handlers involved anymore:
>
> Then the program name isn't set for ps(1) or top(1).

Correct.  That is an acceptable consequence for my use case:  I am
embedding a Ruby interpreter inside a Verilog simulator and I don't
have access to main() or the proper ARGV for the process anyway.

Thanks for the reply. :-)