Bug #1690: backticks don't set $? in windows

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: usa (Usaku NAKAMURA)
• Target version: 1.9.2
• ruby -v: trunk

[rogerdpack (Roger Pack)]

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currently

bad command
Errno::ENOENT: No such file or directory - bad
from (irb):1:in ``'
from (irb):1
from C:/installs/ruby_trunk_installed/bin/irb.bat:20:in `'
$?
=> nil

Thanks.

ruby -v
ruby 1.9.2dev (2009-05-25 trunk 23567) [i386-mingw32]
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[yugui (Yuki Sonoda)]

• Status changed from Open to Assigned
• Assignee set to usa (Usaku NAKAMURA)
• Target version set to 1.9.2

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[usa (Usaku NAKAMURA)]

• Status changed from Assigned to Rejected

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This is spec.
Ruby doesn't execute any child process in such case on Windows, so, ruby cannot set any status to $?.
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[rogerdpack (Roger Pack)]

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That's fine, though surprises me that backticks set $? on linux but not windows.
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[luislavena (Luis Lavena)]

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On Mon, Jul 13, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Roger [e-mail] wrote:

Issue #1690 has been updated by Roger Pack.

That's fine, though surprises me that backticks set $? on linux but not windows.

Last year we provided a patch for backticks and system to properly
find "rake" instead of "rake.bat" and properly set the exited process
information that was missing.

Is a Windows limitation about the exited process or is Ruby itself
that lacks the tracking of it?

--
Luis Lavena
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Perfection in design is achieved not when there is nothing more to add,
but rather when there is nothing more to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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[usa (Usaku NAKAMURA)]

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Hello,

In message "[ruby-core:24317] [Bug #1690] backticks don't set $? in windows"
on Jul.14,2009 04:46:26, [e-mail] wrote:

Issue #1690 has been updated by Roger Pack.

That's fine, though surprises me that backticks set $? on linux but not windows.

On Linux, ruby forks itself first, and the child ruby process
executes the target command.
So, if the target command is missing, the child ruby returns
some error status, and the parent ruby gets it.

IMO, in this case, mswin's behavior of $? is better than Linux's.

Regards,

U.Nakamura [e-mail]

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[rogerdpack (Roger Pack)]

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Perhaps we could at least set
$?
to nil after running system()? [so that it's more obvious that this discrepancy exists]?
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