From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2007-01-28T19:33:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Backticks failing in Ruby built with VC++ 8

On Jan 27, 2007, at 20:14, Daniel Berger wrote:
> 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?

It seems to be.

`ruby -v` works for me, but `pwd` doesn't.

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