Kernel#system broken inside Dir.chdir(&block) if system command doesn't have shell characters

On Dec 14, 2006, at 18:57, Michael Selig wrote:
> I bet your script /usr/local/bin/p4 is a shell script
which doesn't  
> have a
> "#!/bin/sh" line at the top, and that if you
put one in, it will  
> work in
> both cases.

Nope.

$ file /usr/local/bin/p4
/usr/local/bin/p4: Mach-O executable i386

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On Dec 15, 2006, at 12:08 AM, Jim Helm wrote:

> Sounds like the difference betwen exec and /bin/sh
running p4 could  
> still be the cause...
>
> Try this, and see if there's anything missing from the
bare "env"  
> output that's present in the "env;" output
that might affect perforce.
>
> ruby -e 'system("env")'
> ruby -e 'system("env;")'
>
> I bet you'll find an env var that's maybe in .bashrc or
the like,  
> that isn't sourced when ruby uses /bin/sh to run the
script.

I think you're both barking up the wrong tree.

523 % ruby -e 'system "env"' | sort > x
524 % ruby -e 'system "env;"' | sort > y
525 % diff x y
17d16
< OLDPWD=/Users/ryan/Work/p4/zss/src/miniunit
26c25
< SHLVL=1
---
 > SHLVL=2
37c36
< _=/usr/local/bin/ruby
---
 > _=/usr/bin/env