From: Jarmo Pertman <jarmo.p@...>
Date: 2010-11-28T07:40:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Kernel.exec not behaving consistently on Windows?

But Rake only handles system and backticks - is the problem same with
exec?

Jarmo

On Nov 27, 11:51 pm, Luis Lavena <luislav...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Ruby 1.8.x Kernel#exec is broken. The changes required to fix this
> were so radical that couldn't be backported from 1.9.x to 1.8.x
>
> Rake for example workaround this:
>
> https://github.com/jimweirich/rake/blob/master/lib/rake/alt_system.rb
>
> --
> Luis Lavena