1 files changed, 18 insertions, 45 deletions
diff --git a/spec/ruby/core/process/uid_spec.rb b/spec/ruby/core/process/uid_spec.rb
index 1b561f47e0..1e218ef4fe 100644
--- a/spec/ruby/core/process/uid_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/ruby/core/process/uid_spec.rb
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-require File.expand_path('../../../spec_helper', __FILE__)
+require_relative '../../spec_helper'
 
 describe "Process.uid" do
   platform_is_not :windows do
@@ -18,67 +18,40 @@ describe "Process.uid" do
 end
 
 describe "Process.uid=" do
-
   platform_is_not :windows do
     it "raises TypeError if not passed an Integer" do
-      lambda { Process.uid = Object.new }.should raise_error(TypeError)
+      -> { Process.uid = Object.new }.should.raise(TypeError)
     end
 
     as_user do
       it "raises Errno::ERPERM if run by a non privileged user trying to set the superuser id" do
-        lambda { (Process.uid = 0)}.should raise_error(Errno::EPERM)
+        -> { (Process.uid = 0)}.should.raise(Errno::EPERM)
       end
 
       it "raises Errno::ERPERM if run by a non privileged user trying to set the superuser id from username" do
-        lambda { Process.uid = "root" }.should raise_error(Errno::EPERM)
+        -> { Process.uid = "root" }.should.raise(Errno::EPERM)
       end
     end
 
     as_superuser do
       describe "if run by a superuser" do
-        with_feature :fork do
-          it "sets the real user id for the current process" do
-            read, write = IO.pipe
-            pid = Process.fork do
-              begin
-                read.close
-                Process.uid = 1
-                write << Process.uid
-                write.close
-              rescue Exception => e
-                write << e << e.backtrace
-              end
-              Process.exit!
-            end
-            write.close
-            uid = read.gets
-            uid.should == "1"
-            Process.wait pid
-          end
+        it "sets the real user id for the current process" do
+          code = <<-RUBY
+            Process.uid = 1
+            puts Process.uid
+          RUBY
+          ruby_exe(code).should == "1\n"
+        end
 
-          it "sets the real user id if preceded by Process.euid=id" do
-            read, write = IO.pipe
-            pid = Process.fork do
-              begin
-                read.close
-                Process.euid = 1
-                Process.uid = 1
-                write << Process.uid
-                write.close
-              rescue Exception => e
-                write << e << e.backtrace
-              end
-              Process.exit!
-            end
-            write.close
-            uid = read.gets
-            uid.should == "1"
-            Process.wait pid
-          end
+        it "sets the real user id if preceded by Process.euid=id" do
+          code = <<-RUBY
+            Process.euid = 1
+            Process.uid = 1
+            puts Process.uid
+          RUBY
+          ruby_exe(code).should == "1\n"
         end
       end
     end
   end
-
-  it "needs to be reviewed for spec completeness"
 end