From: Mike Stok <mike@...>
Date: 2006-10-13T23:50:42+09:00
Subject: Re: Why does 'chroot' interfere with 'system'?


On 13-Oct-06, at 10:40 AM, Martin Coxall wrote:

>> Could this be it?  You could check by verifying the return
>> value of the various calls to Kernel.system, no?
>
> The odd thing is, that seems like the obvious answer. However, if you
> take only the first two lines:
>
> Dir.chroot(Dir.pwd)
> Kernel.system('echo "new file" > foo')
>
> I'd expect that to work, because 'echo' is a builtin on most shells.
> But it doesn't, not on a random debian box I just tried. I don't
> understand that.
>
> Martin
>
>

Where do you get the shell from?

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