WSMAN_SHELL_STARTUP_INFO_V10 structure (wsman.h)

Defines the shell startup parameters to be used with the WSManCreateShell function. The structure must be allocated by the client and passed to the WSManCreateShell function.

The configuration passed to the WSManCreateShell function can directly affect the behavior of a command executed within the shell. A typical example is the workingDirectory argument that describes the working directory associated with each process, which the operating system uses when attempting to locate files specified by using a relative path.

In the absence of specific requirements for stream naming, clients and services should attempt to use STDIN for input streams, STDOUT for the default output stream, and STDERR for the error or status output stream.

Syntax

typedef struct _WSMAN_SHELL_STARTUP_INFO_V10 {
  WSMAN_STREAM_ID_SET            *inputStreamSet;
  WSMAN_STREAM_ID_SET            *outputStreamSet;
  DWORD                          idleTimeoutMs;
  PCWSTR                         workingDirectory;
  WSMAN_ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE_SET *variableSet;
} WSMAN_SHELL_STARTUP_INFO_V10;

Members

inputStreamSet

A pointer to a WSMAN_STREAM_ID_SET structure that specifies a set of input streams for the shell. Streams not present in the filter can be ignored by the shell implementation. For the Windows Cmd.exe shell, this value should be L"stdin". If the value is NULL, the implementation uses an array with L"stdin" as the default value.

outputStreamSet

A pointer to a WSMAN_STREAM_ID_SET structure that specifies a set of output streams for the shell. Streams not present in the filter can be ignored by the shell implementation. For the Windows cmd.exe shell, this value should be L"stdout stderr". If the value is NULL, the implementation uses an array with L"stdout" and L"stderr" as the default value.

idleTimeoutMs

Specifies the maximum duration, in milliseconds, the shell will stay open without any client request. When the maximum duration is exceeded, the shell is automatically deleted. Any value from 0 to 0xFFFFFFFF can be set. This duration has a maximum value specified by the Idle time-out GPO setting, if enabled, or by the IdleTimeout local configuration. The default value of the maximum duration in the GPO/local configuration is 15 minutes. However, a system administrator can change this value. To use the maximum value from the GPO/local configuration, the client should specify 0 (zero) in this field. If an explicit value between 0 to 0xFFFFFFFF is used, the minimum value between the explicit API value and the value from the GPO/local configuration is used.

workingDirectory

Specifies the starting directory for a shell. It is used with any execution command. If this member is a NULL value, a default directory will be used by the remote machine when executing the command. An empty value is treated by the underlying protocol as an omitted value.

variableSet

A pointer to a WSMAN_ENVIRONMENT_VARIABLE_SET structure that specifies an array of variable name and value pairs, which describe the starting environment for the shell. The content of these elements is shell specific and can be defined in terms of other environment variables. If a NULL value is passed, the default environment is used on the server side.

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