Re: popen() and virtual dir

Under windows, we probably have to switch to win32 functions, rather than c library functions. With the win32 functions, you can define a 'working' directory which is where the program gets executed from. So if the program you want to execute is 'dir.exe', then you would prepend the virtual dir ('virtualdir\dir.exe') and also pass a 'parameter' (actually an item in a structure I think) that contains the working directory, which would simply be the virtualdir. Andi Gutmans wrote: > > At 11:08 AM 6/10/00 -0700, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > > > What do you guys want to do with popen() and virtual_dir? This effects all > > > of the exec() functions. > > > We can either do a real chdir() before calling it and mutexing the whole > > > section; or we can take a more complicated approach of creating a new > > > process and doing the chdir() there. Last but not least, we could just > > > disable these functions :) > > > >Well, disabling them is not really an option. As for creating a new > >process and doing a chdir() there. These functions already create a new > >process. Would something like: > > > > popen("cd /path; cmd") > > > >do the trick? ie. prepend the virtual_dir chdir to the cmd string we pass > >to these functions. The chdir should be isolated to the spawned process. > > That sounds like a good idea! It might actually work. The question is, how > do you do it on Windows? And do all major UNIX shells support the command1; > command2 syntax? bash, tcsh and sh do, but I don't know about shells such > as ksh and so on. Is this maybe in a standard? > > Andi > --- > Andi Gutmans <andi@zend.com> > http://www.zend.com/ > > -- > PHP Development Mailing List <http://www.php.net/> > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-dev-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-dev-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net