[fpc-pascal] Exec(), Linux, and /dev/null redirection

[Marco van de Voort]

In our previous episode, cobines said:
> 2010/2/17 Zitt Zitterkopf <zittware at hotmail.com>:
> > Exec( '/bin/mount', '/dev/'+ aline +' /media/' + aline + ' &> /dev/null');
> 
> Try:
> 
> Exec( '/bin/mount', '/dev/'+ aline +' /media/' + aline + ' 1>/dev/null');
> 
> for redirecting STDOUT or
> 
> Exec( '/bin/mount', '/dev/'+ aline +' /media/' + aline + ' 2>/dev/null
> 1>/dev/null');
> 
> for redirecting STDOUT and STDERR.

Try
fpsystem

it executes a shell, and &> 1> 2> are shell commands, and won't work with
direct execution commands like exec (which is old anyway, use
executeprocess)

> This puts stdout and stderr into one pipe however. There must be some
> way to read from stdout and stderr separately, maybe using TProcess,
> but I've never needed it so I don't know how.

TProcess is definitely the thing to look at.