Feature #14386: Add option to let Kernel.#system raise error instead of returning false - Ruby master - Ruby Issue Tracking System

If I understood it correctly, you mean to pass in an optional hash to be the second argument to system() right? I have nothing against it. I think it would change existing behaviour though, if I read http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.5.0/Kernel.html#method-i-system correctly, so perhaps this may have to be targeted for 3.0, if matz approves of it? Though it may be that I misunderstood the suggestion. To