Bug #12231: Kernel#system should not expand shell variables when given multiples arguments, but on Windows it does

• Status: Rejected
• Assignee: -
• Target version: -
• ruby -v: ruby 2.2.4p230 (2015-12-16 revision 53155) [i386-mingw32]
• Backport: 2.1: UNKNOWN, 2.2: UNKNOWN, 2.3: UNKNOWN

[vais (Vais Salikhov)]

C:\Users\Administrator>C:\Ruby\ruby-2.2.4-i386-mingw32\bin\ruby.exe -ve "ENV['TEST_SH_EXPANSION'] = 'foo'; p system('echo', '%TEST_SH_EXPANSION%')"
ruby 2.2.4p230 (2015-12-16 revision 53155) [i386-mingw32]
foo
true

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Status changed from Open to Rejected

It's a specification.