Hi Mathias, On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 2:10 AM, Mathias Tausig <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Thursday 07. February 2013 12:05:32 Ian Norton wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 07, 2013 at 11:08:22AM +0000, Mathias Tausig wrote: > > > Hy! > > > > > > I want to execute a shell builtin command from mono on a linux box. > (To be > > > precise: I want to read the current umask with the 'umask' command). > Using > > > the Process class doesn't work, since it looks for an actual command > file > > > to run. Is there a way to do this? > > > > how about running "bash -c umask" and capturing the output? > > > > Ian > > You're right, that would work for umask (as would Ulrich's suggestions with > Mono.Unix.Native.Syscall.umask). But it won't work for other builtins (like > jobs or set), because it starts a new shell. I'm curious, if there is a > generic solution for this problem. > Since any exec always starts a fresh shell there won't be any jobs to control or variables to set/get (other than what is set initially) to begin with. What are you trying to achieve? /ulrich
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