/// <summary>
/// Creates a process based on the CreateProcess API call.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="lpApplicationName">The name of the executable or batch file to execute</param>
/// <param name="lpCommandLine">The command line to execute, typically this includes lpApplication as the first argument</param>
/// <param name="lpCurrentDirectory">The full path to the current directory for the process, null will have the same cwd as the calling process</param>
/// <param name="environment">A dictionary of key/value pairs to define the new process environment</param>
/// <param name="stdin">A byte array to send over the stdin pipe</param>
/// <returns>Result object that contains the command output and return code</returns>
public static Result CreateProcess(string lpApplicationName, string lpCommandLine, string lpCurrentDirectory,
IDictionary environment, byte[] stdin)
{
NativeHelpers.ProcessCreationFlags creationFlags = NativeHelpers.ProcessCreationFlags.CREATE_UNICODE_ENVIRONMENT |
NativeHelpers.ProcessCreationFlags.EXTENDED_STARTUPINFO_PRESENT;
NativeHelpers.PROCESS_INFORMATION pi = new NativeHelpers.PROCESS_INFORMATION();
NativeHelpers.STARTUPINFOEX si = new NativeHelpers.STARTUPINFOEX();
si.startupInfo.dwFlags = NativeHelpers.StartupInfoFlags.USESTDHANDLES;
SafeFileHandle stdoutRead, stdoutWrite, stderrRead, stderrWrite, stdinRead, stdinWrite;
CreateStdioPipes(si, out stdoutRead, out stdoutWrite, out stderrRead, out stderrWrite, out stdinRead,
out stdinWrite);
FileStream stdinStream = new FileStream(stdinWrite, FileAccess.Write);
// $null from PowerShell ends up as an empty string, we need to convert back as an empty string doesn't
// make sense for these parameters
if (lpApplicationName == "")
{
lpApplicationName = null;
}
if (lpCurrentDirectory == "")
{
lpCurrentDirectory = null;
}
using (SafeMemoryBuffer lpEnvironment = CreateEnvironmentPointer(environment))
{
// Create console with utf-8 CP if no existing console is present
bool isConsole = false;
if (NativeMethods.GetConsoleWindow() == IntPtr.Zero)
{
isConsole = NativeMethods.AllocConsole();
// Set console input/output codepage to UTF-8
NativeMethods.SetConsoleCP(65001);
NativeMethods.SetConsoleOutputCP(65001);
}
try
{
StringBuilder commandLine = new StringBuilder(lpCommandLine);
if (!NativeMethods.CreateProcessW(lpApplicationName, commandLine, IntPtr.Zero, IntPtr.Zero,
true, creationFlags, lpEnvironment, lpCurrentDirectory, si, out pi))
{
throw new Win32Exception("CreateProcessW() failed");
}
}
finally
{
if (isConsole)
{
NativeMethods.FreeConsole();
}
}
}
return(WaitProcess(stdoutRead, stdoutWrite, stderrRead, stderrWrite, stdinStream, stdin, pi.hProcess));
}
public static extern bool CreateProcessW(
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPWStr)] string lpApplicationName,
StringBuilder lpCommandLine,
IntPtr lpProcessAttributes,
IntPtr lpThreadAttributes,
bool bInheritHandles,
NativeHelpers.ProcessCreationFlags dwCreationFlags,
SafeMemoryBuffer lpEnvironment,
[MarshalAs(UnmanagedType.LPWStr)] string lpCurrentDirectory,
NativeHelpers.STARTUPINFOEX lpStartupInfo,
out NativeHelpers.PROCESS_INFORMATION lpProcessInformation);