>>>>> "P" == Patrick Bennett <patrick.bennett / inin.com> writes:

P> My point being that it works differently under Windows and it is 
P> considered acceptable there, whereas under *nix it works completely 

 They do what they want under Windows.

P> platforms?   I don't see Ruby as a 'system' service. 

 I use ruby with $SAFE >= 4 but I think that you can't understand why.

Guy Decoux