From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2010-06-26T06:49:08+09:00
Subject: Re: $? is always new?

Roger Pack wrote:
> Is the following expected?
> 
> $ irb
>>> $?
> => #<Process::Status: pid 20110 exit 0>
>>> $?
> => #<Process::Status: pid 20122 exit 0>
>>> $?
> => #<Process::Status: pid 20134 exit 0>
> 
> What are those phantom processes?
> -r

What platform are you on? What ruby version? For me, with ruby 
1.8.7.249-2 standard package from Ubuntu Lucid amd64:

$ irb
irb(main):001:0> $?
=> nil
irb(main):002:0> $?
=> nil
irb(main):003:0> $?
=> nil
irb(main):004:0> RUBY_VERSION
=> "1.8.7"

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