From: Logan Capaldo <logancapaldo@...>
Date: 2006-10-30T23:59:42+09:00
Subject: Re: backtick and %x{} not the same?

On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 12:40:16PM +0900, Andreas S wrote:
> 
> >From: matt@tidbits.com (matt neuburg)
> >
> >Isn't it better to use an absolute pathname, rather than use a bare
> >filename and making assumptions what $PATH is going to be?
> 
> I tried that and it doesn't work either. Apparently the issue wasn't search 
> path. Logan explained what has happened there (although I'm not sure what 
> he meant by ruby thinks, "I can handle this myself". How?)
It does a straight fork+exec instead of invoking a shell interpreter
> 
> I was expecting system call would result exactly the same as if the command 
> was executed in the shell itself. If there's a problem with the executed 
> command, I would've thought I'd be able to replicate it from the shell. 
> 'command not found' was a rather puzzling error message for me.
> 
> I don't know ruby in and out, but I'm sure there is a good reason ruby does 
> this.
> 
> -andre
> 
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