From: "U.Nakamura" <usa@...>
Date: 2003-10-30T09:43:18+09:00
Subject: Re: [BUG] system() isn't safe on win32

Hello,

In message "Re: [BUG] system() isn't safe on win32"
    on Oct.30,2003 09:28:09, <matz@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
| |This ruby one-liner
| |
| |   ruby -ve "$SAFE = 5; system 'echo Was able to run an arbitrary command
| |   in safe mode.'"
| |
| |produces this scary result:
| |
| |   ruby 1.8.0 (2003-08-04) [i386-mswin32]
| |   Was able to run an arbitrary command in safe mode.
| |
| |IMHO this effectively disables all the security which $SAFE ought to 
| |give you and should be fixed in the ruby interpreter.
| 
| It shouldn't happen.  Does anyone confirm this?

It's bug of mswin32 (and mingw32, bccwin32). Sorry.
I've fixed it on CVS.


Regards,
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U.Nakamura <usa@osb.att.ne.jp>