From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-01-28T13:04:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Backticks failing in Ruby built with VC++ 8

On Jan 27, 2007, at 19:55, Daniel Berger wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Ruby 1.8.5 p12
> Windows XP SP2
>
> I'm getting a segfault when I use the backtick operator in a Ruby  
> built with VC++ 8:
>
> pwd = `pwd`.chomp
>
> It works fine with the one click (VC++ 6).
>
> Is anyone else seeing this behavior? I want to make sure I haven't  
> done something silly before officially filing this as a bug  
> report.  If it is a bug, I'm guessing I need to examine the  
> CreateChild function in Ruby's win32.c file. Please point me to the  
> appropriate location if that's not correct.

Isn't pwd a shell builtin on WinXP?

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