From: Charlton <charlton.wang@...>
Date: 2006-12-21T15:45:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Kernel#system bug?

Thanks, Eric. I see the discussion over at ruby-core. Unfortunately, I
don't really understand the resolution (if there is one). I'll keep my
eyes on the mailing list.

Cheers,
Charlton


Eric Hodel wrote:
> 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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