From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-06-27T21:56:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Command in backticks hangs? (OS X, 1.8.6-p36)

On Jun 26, 2007, at 5:40 PM, Tim Hunter wrote:

> The script works normally now. I suppose I should get energetic and  
> work on a small reproduction of the problem.

If anyone has a minimal script that shows this error, please share  
it.  I've been in contact with Apple and Leopard is suppose to ship  
with Ruby 1.8.6-p36 which is where I found the issue.  They are  
willing to patch it though, if we can show the problem.   
Unfortunately, both scripts I ran into it with are very non-trivial.

James Edward Gray II