From: Luis Lavena <luislavena@...>
Date: 2009-06-24T01:12:40+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:23987] Re: possible bug with windows `` they don't set $?

On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:58 PM, Roger Pack<rogerdpack@gmail.com> wrote:
> Looks like a bug? [1.8 or 1.9]
>
>
> mingw:
>
>>> `bad`
>>> $?
> => #<Process::Status: pid=5636,exited(0)> # this is wrong it did not exit 0
>
> msvc:
>>> `bad`
>>> $?
> => nil
>
> So there appear to be two discrepancies here--msvc is *different* than
> mingw, and both don't seem to set $? right.
> Thoughts?
> -=r
>

Hello Roger,

This was reported while back by RubyInstaller team and fixed prior
1.8.6-p287 release.

Can you test out alt_system extension?

http://github.com/quix/alt_system/tree/master

And let's see the results, perhaps there is some clobbering over there
in Ruby itself.

-- 
Luis Lavena
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