From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2006-12-21T07:57:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Kernel#system bug?

On Dec 20, 2006, at 13:45, Charlton wrote:

> Running Ruby 1.8.4 on Linux
>
> This problem seems to exist with the system() function but also has  
> the
> same problem with IO#popen. Seems the working directory of a subshell
> can be affected by the command being executed? In the first call to
> popen, I'm just executing "env". In the second, I'm calling "env;"
> (with a semicolon. I encountered this because some commands I was
> calling with system() were unable to find files that should have been
> in the directory that I chdir'd to.

See the recent discussion on ruby-core.

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