From: Daniel Berger <djberg96@...>
Date: 2007-01-28T23:31:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Backticks failing in Ruby built with VC++ 8

Eric Hodel wrote:
> 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.

As I responded to Nobu, it happens with any command. Besides, 'pwd' 
works if you're using the Windows PowerShell. :)

Dan