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 >> Visit http://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<
