From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2006-07-21T17:45:46+09:00
Subject: Re: "insecure world writable" fix ?

>>>>> "S" == Sean Harre <sharre@transmeta.com> writes:

S>     exec_str = "./foo.pl test\n"
S>     exec(exec_str)

S> Anyone have an idea why this works?

 When ruby find some special characters (like \n;[]{} ...) in the string, it
 call the shell (/bin/sh -c) rather than trying to exec directly the
 program. In this case it don't test the variable PATH



Guy Decoux