From: JJ <jjnoakes@...>
Date: 2008-01-08T23:59:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby's Kernel::exec (and system and %x)

On Jan 7, 5:14 pm, Nobuyoshi Nakada <n...@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> 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.

Thank you. This executes the command directly and doesn't use a sub-
shell. This is exactly what I was looking for.

Thanks,

-JJ