From: Jeremy Henty <jeremy@...>
Date: 2003-01-04T03:54:12+09:00
Subject: Re: ENV.clear

In article <1041481251.819565.3200.nullmailer@picachu.netlab.jp>,
Yukihiro Matsumoto wrote:

> "clear" is not supported by ENV, just because I considered removing
> all environment variables might not be intentional.

Why?  When writing Perl scripts in a security-conscious way I often
deleted all environment variables, then set a chosen few (PATH,
typically) to safe values.  Is this an unusual thing to want to do?
Or is there a better way to do this sort of thing in Ruby?

Regards,

Jeremy Henty