From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2005-06-24T08:36:52+09:00
Subject: Re: Shell type

Hi,

At Fri, 24 Jun 2005 03:59:38 +0900,
Joel VanderWerf wrote in [ruby-talk:146295]:
> This is linux, too. I don't see any sh invocation. It's not hidden by 
> pstree is it?

Kernel#system doesn't invoke any sh if multiple strings
arguments are or a single string without shell metacharacters
is given.  Instead, forks and execs directly.

-- 
Nobu Nakada