[#9722] Kernel#system broken inside Dir.chdir(&block) if system command doesn't have shell characters — <noreply@...>

Bugs item #7278, was opened at 2006-12-14 13:59

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Re: [ ruby-Bugs-7278 ] Kernel#system broken inside Dir.chdir(&block) if system command doesn't have shell characters

From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2006-12-16 02:09:47 UTC
List: ruby-core #9733
Hi,

At Fri, 15 Dec 2006 06:59:52 +0900,
<noreply@rubyforge.org> wrote in [ruby-core:09722]:
> % ruby -v -e 'Dir.chdir("p4") { system "/usr/local/bin/p4 info" }'
> ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i686-darwin8.8.1]
> Perforce client error:
>         Connect to server failed; check $P4PORT.
>         TCP connect to perforce failed.
>         perforce: host unknown.

Could you elaborate the problem?

* does work without Dir.chdir
  (chdir p4; ruby -e 'system "/usr/local/bin/p4 info"')

* does work with -C option
  ruby -C p4 -e 'system "/usr/local/bin/p4 info"'

* does work outside chdir block
  ruby -e 'Dir.chdir("p4"); system "/usr/local/bin/p4 info"'

Also, do them work with "printenv P4PORT" instead of
/usr/local/bin/p4?

-- 
Nobu Nakada

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