From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-12-21T07:58:06+09:00
Subject: Re: [ ruby-Bugs-7278 ] Kernel#system broken inside Dir.chdir(&block) if system command doesn't have shell characters

On Dec 15, 2006, at 18:09, Nobuyoshi Nakada wrote:
> 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?

There's a minimal test case in [ruby-talk:230639].

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