From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2008-05-05T23:22:36+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem using System command in ruby

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Albert Schlef wrote:
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| That's true for posix systems, that the 'current directory' is
| independent for each process.
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| But, AFAIK, this isn't correct for Windows. Has this changed with newer
| versions of Windows?

Windows XP SP2 exhibits that behavior. And this is more something on
Ruby's side of things, rather than the OS (that can do little, after
all, if Ruby works its magic, no?), especially if this behavior is
consistent across platforms (which I'm too lazy to check, but somebody
with *NIX currently booted can do that easily ;).

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