From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2004-08-21T06:57:25+09:00
Subject: Re: determining ruby interpreter

Hi,

At Fri, 20 Aug 2004 23:45:50 +0900,
Ara.T.Howard wrote in [ruby-talk:109977]:
> >>> Works on windows and cygwin, but you might have to add ".exe" to spawn
> >>> an external process.
> >>
> >> really?  the install name doesn't include the extention then?
> >
> > It doesn't, but EXEEXT is not needed by system and spawn.
> 
> tricky.  what is spawn?!

As well as command.com/cmd.exe, some suffixes can be omitted.

> does this do anything tricky on windows like it does on *nix:
> 
>    system "#{ cmd } 2>/dev/null"

It would work except that:
* redirection with file descriptor works only on cmd.exe, but
  not command.com, and
* /dev/null doesn't exist on Windows.

-- 
Nobu Nakada