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feat: add workingDirectory option to shell.openExternal() (#15065)

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Allows passing `workingDirectory` to the underlying `ShellExecuteW` API on Windows.

the motivation is that by default `ShellExecute` would use the current working directory, which would get locked on Windows and can prevent autoUpdater from working correctly. We need to be able specify a different `workingDirectory` to prevent this situation.
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Milan Burda
2018-10-10 22:46:54 +02:00
committed by Alexey Kuzmin
parent 2d186cb31a
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@@ -37,9 +37,10 @@ Open the given file in the desktop's default manner.
### `shell.openExternal(url[, options, callback])`
* `url` String - Max 2081 characters on windows, or the function returns false.
* `options` Object (optional) _macOS_
* `activate` Boolean - `true` to bring the opened application to the
foreground. The default is `true`.
* `options` Object (optional)
* `activate` Boolean (optional) - `true` to bring the opened application to the
foreground. The default is `true`. _macOS_
* `workingDirectory` String (optional) - The working directory. _Windows_
* `callback` Function (optional) _macOS_ - If specified will perform the open asynchronously.
* `error` Error