From: "Ara.T.Howard" <ahoward@...>
Date: 2004-06-30T08:22:54+09:00
Subject: Re: [RCR/BUG?] fix system

On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Andrew Walrond wrote:

> On Tuesday 29 Jun 2004 18:22, Ara.T.Howard wrote:
>>
>> so, in summary you must still always check $?, but sometimes errors will be
>> thrown depending on the contents of the string passed to system.  am i the
>> only one who finds this confusing?  it seems like any code using system
>> will turn into spaghetti if it follows these rules...
>>
>
> Oh dear...
>
> Is this a snapshot?

yes.

~/build/ruby > ruby -v
ruby 1.9.0 (2004-05-27) [i686-linux]


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