Am Mittwoch, 02. Feb 2005, 06:35:44 +0900 schrieb Assaph Mehr: > > $SAFE = 4 > > load fn, true > > Works fine for me: ruby 1.8.2 (2004-11-06) [i386-mswin32] > > > All I wanted to do is run the thread in its own environment. > > I will use fork. > > .... from which I understand you're on *nix, right? Yes, Linux. > I think 'load' will > not access files from globally writable locations on unix. This is done > interntionally to prevent loading of non-secure files. Since you write > the file locally, it might be considered unsafe. I switched off every writeable flag I could find. The error stays the same. Thank you very much, anyway. Bertram -- Bertram Scharpf Stuttgart, Deutschland/Germany http://www.bertram-scharpf.de