Temporarily turn off warnings. Intended for tests only.
Temporarily turn off warnings. Intended for tests only.
Remove any non-printable characters and make the text suitable for printing.
Displays an error statement to the error output location. Asks a question if given.
Displays a warning statement to the warning output location. Asks a question if given.
Invokes system, but silences all output.
Change the current process’s real and effective user ID to that specified by user. Returns the new user ID. Not available on all platforms.
[Process.uid, Process.euid] #=> [0, 0] Process::UID.change_privilege(31) #=> 31 [Process.uid, Process.euid] #=> [31, 31]
Set the effective user ID, and if possible, the saved user ID of the process to the given user. Returns the new effective user ID. Not available on all platforms.
[Process.uid, Process.euid] #=> [0, 0] Process::UID.grant_privilege(31) #=> 31 [Process.uid, Process.euid] #=> [0, 31]
Returns true if the real and effective user IDs of a process may be exchanged on the current platform.
Returns true if the current platform has saved user ID functionality.
Change the current process’s real and effective group ID to that specified by group. Returns the new group ID. Not available on all platforms.
[Process.gid, Process.egid] #=> [0, 0] Process::GID.change_privilege(33) #=> 33 [Process.gid, Process.egid] #=> [33, 33]
Set the effective group ID, and if possible, the saved group ID of the process to the given group. Returns the new effective group ID. Not available on all platforms.
[Process.gid, Process.egid] #=> [0, 0] Process::GID.grant_privilege(31) #=> 33 [Process.gid, Process.egid] #=> [0, 33]
Returns true if the real and effective group IDs of a process may be exchanged on the current platform.
Returns true if the current platform has saved group ID functionality.
Get all [gem, version] from the command line.
An argument in the form gem:ver is pull apart into the gen name and version, respectively.
Finds a spec and the source_uri it came from for gem gem_name and version. Returns an Array of specs and sources required for installation of the gem.
accessor to Fiddle::CStructEntity
accessor to Fiddle::CUnionEntity
Calculates the offsets and sizes for the given types in the struct.
Calculate the necessary offset and for each union member with the given types
Parses the configuration data read from io, see also parse.
Raises a ConfigError on invalid configuration data.