Bug#891449: jruby: system() does not work on arm64

[Miguel Landaeta]

tags 891449 + help
thanks

On Sun, Feb 25, 2018 at 02:13:41PM -0300, Antonio Terceiro wrote:
> Package: jruby
> Version: 9.1.13.0-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
> 
> When debugging #890046 on ruby-json, I realized that I cannot execute
> any program with system() under jruby on arm64:
> 
> ----------------8<----------------8<----------------8<-----------------
> (sid_arm64-dchroot)terceiro@amdahl:~/ruby-json-2.1.0+dfsg$ jruby -e 
> 'system("date")'
> Errno::EACCES: Permission denied - /bin/date
>   system at org/jruby/RubyKernel.java:1544
>   <main> at -e:1
> (sid_arm64-dchroot)terceiro@amdahl:~/ruby-json-2.1.0+dfsg$ /bin/date
> Sun Feb 25 16:59:17 UTC 2018
> ----------------8<----------------8<----------------8<-----------------
> 
> - Passing the full path does not help
> - I only see this on arm64

Help on this bug is more than welcome.

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