From: Chris Shea <cmshea@...>
Date: 2007-02-17T03:10:06+09:00
Subject: Re: cross-thread violation on rb_gc() and Windows arguments

On Feb 16, 11:03 am, "bbiker" <ren...@nc.rr.com> wrote:
> On Feb 15, 11:20 pm, "Chris Shea" <cms...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hello,
>
> > I was working on a script and running into problems with passing an
> > argument with a wildcard with the C:\WINDOWS\System32 path. Observe:
>
> > ---
> > C:\>more test.rb
> > puts ARGV
>
> > C:\>test.rb C:\ruby\*.txt
> > C:/ruby/ChangeLog.txt
> > C:/ruby/LICENSE.txt
> > C:/ruby/ReleaseNotes.txt
>
> > C:\>test.rb C:\WINDOWS\system32\runonce.exe
> > C:\WINDOWS\system32\runonce.exe
>
> > C:\>test.rb C:\WINDOWS\system32\runonce.ex*
> > [BUG] cross-thread violation on rb_gc()
> > ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i386-mswin32]
>
> > This application has requested the Runtime to terminate it in an
> > unusual way.
> > Please contact the application's support team for more information.
>
> > C:\>ruby -v
> > ruby 1.8.5 (2006-08-25) [i386-mswin32]
> > ---
>
> > I haven't been able to figure out or find a workaround (besides just
> > knowing all the filenames) or fix.
>
> > I thought Windows takes care of the wildcard, generating the argument
> > list. I don't know how that would help, but earlier today it made
> > sense to me that it meant something.
>
> > And this happens even if ARGV is never referenced (e.g. an empty
> > test.rb does the same thing), so it looks like the violation happens
> > even before the script is interpreted.
>
> > And, yes, I'm logged in with an administrator account (Windows users
> > usually are, aren't they?).
>
> > Anyone have any insight? Or is this just one of those things (one of
> > those things about working with Windows)?
>
> Not the answer you want.
> I've tried on my box and it works fine ...
>
> Have you tried: dir C:\WINDOWS\system32\runonce.ex* in a dos window?
>
> No problem on my box
>
> C:\Documents and Settings\Owner>dir c:\windows\system32\runonce.ex*
>  Volume in drive C has no label.
>  Volume Serial Number is 2CEC-6C29
>
>  Directory of c:\windows\system32
>
> 08/10/2004  02:00 PM            14,336 runonce.exe
>                1 File(s)         14,336 bytes
>                0 Dir(s)  169,529,577,472 bytes free

Yes.  I thought of mentioning that similar wildcard arguments are fine
with Windows commands (like dir).  I've only found this to happen when
passing that argument to ruby.