[IronPython] System.Diagnostics.Process.Start only uses first argument

[Luke Hoersten]

I found that the problem is actually with regedit and not .NET. I also
found that there is a .NET class for editing registry keys
(Microsoft.Win32.RegistryKey) which is much cleaner than having
external .reg files anyway.

Thanks for your help Dino!

-Luke Hoersten

On Jun 22, 11:22 am, Luke Hoersten <luke.hoers... at gmail.com> wrote:
> The only other thing I can think of is I'm giving regedit a reg key
> that exists on my usb key. So actually the args = "f:\\some\\file\
> \key.reg".
>
> The exit code returns 0 every time. If I run my command and args
> directly on the command line, it work fine as well.
>
> On Jun 22, 11:07 am, Dino Viehland <d... at exchange.microsoft.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> > Unfortunately I'm not sure what could be going wrong here.  This works for me on v1.x - I'm on Vista so I have to run from an admin command prompt (otherwise regedit doesn't find the file) but otherwise it just works - even if I use the code as you have it below.
>
> > Have you checked the ExitCode property of the process?
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: users-boun... at lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-boun... at lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Luke Hoersten
> > Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 8:47 AM
> > To: u... at lists.ironpython.com
> > Subject: Re: [IronPython] System.Diagnostics.Process.Start only uses first argument
>
> > I'm not including the quotes. Those are just the strings I'm using,
> > similar to your example. I'm getting different results: Only the first
> > argument being sent in that string is being processed. The other is
> > being ignored. So either I get /s and no .reg file or I import
> > the .reg file and it prompts me. I'm writing a script so obviously
> > prompting is undesirable.
>
> > Here's my code:
> > name = "c:\\Windows\\regedit.exe"
> > args = "/s example.reg"
> > System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(name, args)
>
> > I've even tried waiting on the process to exit with WaitForExit() but
> > that still does not work.
>
> > I've read on Google about a lot of people having this similar problem
> > but people seem to give up before posting a solution. Any other ideas?
>
> > On Jun 22, 10:32 am, Dino Viehland <d... at exchange.microsoft.com>
> > wrote:
> > > How exactly are you passing this?  I assume the quotes aren't being included?  The 1st form below prompts me and the 2nd form doesn't prompt (ignoring the UAC prompt on Vista of course which is a whole other ball of wax), are you doing something different?
>
> > > >>> import System
> > > >>> System.Diagnostics.Process.Start('regedit.exe', '"/s foo.reg"')
>
> > > <System.Diagnostics.Process object at 0x000000000000002B [System.Diagnostics.Process (regedit)]>>>> System.Diagnostics.Process.Start('regedit.exe', '/s foo.reg')
>
> > > <System.Diagnostics.Process object at 0x000000000000002C [System.Diagnostics.Process (regedit)]>
>
> > > You could also check out the nt module where we have nt.popen (or os if you have the CPython std lib installed) which takes a single command line (exe + args) and we do the splitting for you - that'd also be compatible w/ CPython.
>
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: users-boun... at lists.ironpython.com [mailto:users-boun... at lists.ironpython.com] On Behalf Of Luke Hoersten
> > > Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 8:07 AM
> > > To: u... at lists.ironpython.com
> > > Subject: [IronPython] System.Diagnostics.Process.Start only uses first argument
>
> > > System.Diagnostics.Process.Start(app, args) should take a string of
> > > arguments delimited by spaces for the second argument of start which
> > > it will pass to app on stdin. I'm trying to run app = "regedit.exe"
> > > and args ="/s key.reg" but it's only recognizing the first argument
> > > (which is /s). If I remove /s, it runs the key but I want this to run
> > > silently.
>
> > > I've also tried ProcessStartInfo() but it suffers from the same
> > > problem. Does anyone have any more information on this or know how to
> > > work around this?
>
> > > Thanks,
> > > Luke
>
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