From: "James M. Lawrence" <redmine@...>
Date: 2009-01-20T08:44:50+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:21449] [Bug #907] Various system() and backticks problems on Windows

Issue #907 has been updated by James M. Lawrence.


Nobu wrote:
> > Note there are other popular Windows shells such the
> > PowerShell, so the general strategy of checking for built-in
> > shell commands cannot work.
>
> Is COMSPEC the PowerShell by the default on such systems?

Probably not, but that is not relevant to the point I wanted to make.

If system("built-in-shell-command", "1") fails on Unix, then it should
fail on Windows.

If it fails with an alternate shell on Windows, then it should fail
with all shells.

Why does ruby support system("built-in-shell-command", "1") for this
one case of Windows + cmd.exe?

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