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Re: Runtime.getruntime().exec("")

Subject: Re: Runtime.getruntime().exec("")
From: email@hidden
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 10:11:29 -0800

Sam Hart wrote:
| % echo $PATH
| /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin
|
| hmmm... in order to put a path that gets searched before /usr/bin you
| would need admin rights.

Why do you say that? PATH is just a shell variable; any common riff-raff can change it with no special privileges at all. It's possible to change it without a shell, by writing a small launcher program that sets the environment properly before doing an exec() call. (After all, the shell itself is just such a program, albeit one rather more feature-laden.) It may even be possible to set it using the .MacOSX/environment.plist feature (http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2001/qa1067.html).

Glen Fisher
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