On Friday 08. February 2013 10:45:32 Ulrich Hertlein wrote: > Hi Mathias, > > On Fri, Feb 8, 2013 at 2:10 AM, Mathias Tausig <mathias.tausig@a- cert.at>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.
Does it? I didn't know that. I assumed it uses the same shell that mono is running in. > What are you trying to achieve? I started with the problem of reading the current umask. After I realised, that I can get that information by other means, I just remained curious. Thanks for the help. Mathias _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
