From: Tim Hunter <TimHunter@...>
Date: 2007-06-27T07:40:39+09:00
Subject: Re: Command in backticks hangs? (OS X, 1.8.6-p36)

Tim Hunter wrote:
> I'm running ruby 1.8.6 (2007-06-07 patchlevel 36) [powerpc-darwin8.9.0]
>
> I have a script (the OS X installer script for RMagick) that I've been 
> using for some months now. Today I discovered that, in this script 
> only, a command in backticks hangs:
>
> im_version = `Magick-config --version` rescue nil
>
> The command works normally when I enter it on the command line. The 
> statement works normally when I try it in irb. This statement works 
> normally as a simple one line Ruby script.
>
> It is possible that this is the first time I've run the script since I 
> upgraded to this version of Ruby.
>
> Has anybody else encountered this problem?
>
Following up to myself: I uninstalled 1.8.6 patchlevel 36 and replaced 
it with 1.8.6 patchlevel 0 downloaded from RubyForge. The script works 
normally now. I suppose I should get energetic and work on a small 
reproduction of the problem.

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