Public bug reported: While debugging an old Ruby script for determing the Internet connection status (online vs offline), I found that running exec from Ruby would crash Unity.
Steps to reproduce: 1. wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mcandre/mcandre/95350df18b982f455d49eca739f2e1ee42da75f4/ruby/webshout.rb 2. emacs 3. M-x shell 4. ruby webshout.rb In particular, it seems that the line: exec 'say You are now online.' (which I've since corrected to use system instead of exec) Attempts to replace the ruby process for webshout.rb with a GNUStep say process. But something messes up, and Unity crashes. System: $ specs ruby emacs unity os Specs: specs 0.10 https://github.com/mcandre/specs#readme bundle --version Bundler version 1.6.2 gem --version 2.2.2 ruby --version ruby 2.0.0p481 (2014-05-08 revision 45883) [x86_64-linux] emacs --version GNU Emacs 24.3.1 Copyright (C) 2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. GNU Emacs comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You may redistribute copies of Emacs under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING. unity --version unity 7.2.2 lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS Release: 14.04 Codename: trusty ** Affects: unity-2d (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: crash exec unity -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1357524 Title: Crashes on Ruby exec To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-2d/+bug/1357524/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
