From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2007-01-28T13:14:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Backticks failing in Ruby built with VC++ 8

Eric Hodel wrote:
> 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?
Yes. Is that significant?

Dan