From: Tanaka Akira <akr@...>
Date: 2012-04-04T18:14:16+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:44123] Re: [ruby-trunk - Bug #6249][Open] Process.exec doesn't restore the environment if it fails

2012/4/3 john_firebaugh (John Firebaugh) <john.firebaugh@gmail.com>:

>>> ENV["foo"]
> => nil
>>> Process.exec({"foo" => "bar"}, "nonexistent")
> Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - nonexistent
>        from (irb):2:in `exec'
>        from (irb):2
>        from /Users/john/.rvm/rubies/ruby-1.9.3-p125/bin/irb:16:in `<main>'
>>> ENV["foo"]
> => "bar"
>
> I expected that Process.exec would either use execle or execve, or (if it implements environment modification itself), to manually restore the existing environment upon failure.

I see.

I think Process.exec should use execve.
-- 
Tanaka Akira