From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2007-03-30T23:51:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Workaround for 1.8.6 with CommandLine

On Fri, 30 Mar 2007, Jim Freeze wrote:

> Hello
>
> If you are using ruby-1.8.6, you may have noticed a bug where exit always
> returns 0 when called from within an at_exit block. You can test this on your
> machine with the following little snippet:
>
>  ruby -e 'at_exit { exit(1) }' ; echo $?
>
> The result should be '1', but ruby-1.8.6 will return '0'.

wow.  i rely on that combination in a few places, in particular i dis-inherit
exit
handlers in child processes by doing this as the first line

   at_exit{ exit! status }

do you know if it's a bug or new behaviour?

-a
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