From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2008-01-08T07:14:12+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby's Kernel::exec (and system and %x)

Hi,

At Mon, 7 Jan 2008 05:14:59 +0900,
JJ wrote in [ruby-talk:286375]:
> In Perl, one can force the no-shell-interpreter path by calling exec
> (and system) like so:
> 
>   my $cmd = "C:\\Program Files\\...";
>   exec( { $cmd } $cmd );

  cmd = "C:/Program Files/..."
  exec([cmd, cmd])

Citing from `ri exec':
     If the first argument is a two-element array, the first
     element is the command to be executed, and the second
     argument is used as the +argv[0]+ value, which may show up
     in process listings.

-- 
Nobu Nakada