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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/rbot/core/utils/utils.rb | 19 |
1 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/rbot/core/utils/utils.rb b/lib/rbot/core/utils/utils.rb index 92df73ff..fb9b1f65 100644 --- a/lib/rbot/core/utils/utils.rb +++ b/lib/rbot/core/utils/utils.rb @@ -293,6 +293,25 @@ module ::Irc } end + # Try executing an external program, returning true if the run was successful + # and false otherwise + def Utils.try_exec(command, *args) + IO.popen("-") { |p| + if p.nil? + begin + $stderr.reopen($stdout) + exec(command, *args) + rescue Exception => e + Kernel::exit! 1 + end + Kernel::exit! 1 + else + debug p.readlines + end + } + debug $? + return $?.success? + end # Safely (atomically) save to _file_, by passing a tempfile to the block # and then moving the tempfile to its final location when done. |