[Mono-dev] Changing the behavior of Process.Create

[Rodrigo Kumpera]

Yes, this should probably not change on windows due to .net.




On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 3:12 PM, Charlie Poole <charlie at nunit.com> wrote:

> Can I assume this only applies to Linux? In the past, when I used
> Process.Create
> from a Mono app on Windows, the secondary process ran under MS .NET.
>
> Consequently, in order to work on both platforms, NUnit actually runs mono
> again when it is already running under mono and launches its agent process.
>
> Charlie
>
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 9:21 AM, Rodrigo Kumpera <kumpera at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hey Guys,
> >
> > I've been looking on how to fix those two bugs:
> > https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17831
> > https://bugzilla.xamarin.com/show_bug.cgi?id=17820
> >
> > And one option we're contemplating is to switch the behavior of
> > Process.Create
> > when launching managed assemblies to first try to use the currently
> running
> > runtime
> > before delegating to one in PATH.
> >
> > Currently if you run a program that uses Process.Create with a runtime
> not
> > located in path,
> > the launched process will use mono from the PATH, which to some sounds
> > surprising.
> >
> > Does anyone know of any app that will break with such change of behavior?
> >
> > This probably only affects embedders and mono hackers.
> >
> > --
> > Rodrigo
> >
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