From: Gennady Bystritksy <gfb@...>
Date: 2005-01-18T08:37:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Ignoring RUBYOPT ?

Erik Veenstra wrote:
>>>How can I let Ruby ignore RUBYOPT?
>>>
>>>Both -T1 and unsetting the environment variable aren't
>>>possible in my situation. I don't want the rest of the
>>>script to run in safe mode 1 and I don't have control of
>>>the environment...
>>
>>I haven't followed this thread, but since the internal ENV
>>only affects the current process and its children, can you
>>wrap your program in a script that unsets RUBYOPT and then
>>just fork/popen the real program?
> 
> 
> No, I can't. I start ruby.exe from a little FreePascal program,
> which does have getenv(), but no such thing as setenv().

Have you checked for putenv()?

> 
> Using an intermediate .bat file isn't an option, because I
> don't want a stupid DOS-box when using rubyw.exe instead of
> ruby.exe.
> 
> Mmhh... I might use an intermediate Ruby script to unset the
> environment variable... Not pretty, but it might work....
> gegroet,
> Erik V.
> 
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