From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-04-24T15:38:07+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:14141] Re: Assignment to $0 is truncated

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:14094] Assignment to $0 is truncated"
    on 01/04/24, B_M <bmbros@magicnet.org> writes:

|When I assign a string to $0, it's truncated to a size relative to the original $0's size.

This is a bug.

--- ruby.c	2001/03/13 05:48:33	1.36.2.4
+++ ruby.c	2001/04/24 06:37:36
@@ -879,5 +879,5 @@
 #ifndef __hpux
-    if (i > len) {
-	memcpy(origargv[0], s, len);
-	origargv[0][len] = '\0';
+    if (i < len) {
+	memcpy(origargv[0], s, i);
+	origargv[0][i] = '\0';
     }