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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Locating executables in root's PATH (in KAuth helper)
From:       johnmS2 <s2 () forceway ! com>
Date:       2011-05-08 23:07:27
Message-ID: 4DC7222F.2070800 () forceway ! com
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On 05/08/2011 11:35 AM, David Jarvie wrote:
> On Sunday 08 May 2011 18:46:46 Enda Cronnolly wrote:
>> On Sunday 08 May 2011 18:35:42 David Jarvie wrote:
>>> Is there any KDE or Qt way to locate an executable using the root PATH.
>>> Specifically, I want to run something which on my system is in /usr/sbin/,
>>> calling it from a KAuth helper module running as root.
>>> KStandarDirs::findExe() doesn't produce any result (the PATH variable
>>> doesn't seem to be set up). I could hard code the /usr/sbin/ path, but
>>> that doesn't seem desirable in case the executable is elsewhere on some
>>> systems.
>>
>> http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?whereis
> 
> This does the job on the command line, but it's not particularly easy to call it from C++ code.
> 
> 

Run whereis using popen() is easy enough, but I believe it is only on
POSIX systems if that matters.

Or manually search the PATH yourself?

-johnm
 
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