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Date: Wed, 23 May 2001 18:53:36 -0700 (PDT)
From: Diane Holt <holtdl@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: Starting Background Tasks with Ant
To: ant-dev@jakarta.apache.org, mop@nuix.com.au
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A couple of people submitted patches for this sort of thing awhile back --
one was to allow <exec> to background its process, the other was for
<java> to do that. Here's the mail that mentions both:
  http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-dev&m=98236259623968&w=2

Neither looks to have been committed, so if you wanted to use them, you'd
need to pick them up from the archive. But note: These weren't tasks --
they were changes to existing tasks, so if you're going to use either (or
both) of them, it'd mean changing your local version of the task(s).

Diane

--- Nigel Leslie <mop@nuix.com.au> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I realise that it is inappropriate to email this question to the ant-dev
> 
> list, but there was no response from the ant-users list. I also realise
> that 
> the starting of background tasks is non-portable, but surely somebody
> has 
> encountered this problem before?
> 
> --
> 
> The question:
> 
> I am using Ant on a Linux machine, and am attempting to start a java
> process
> as a background task. However, including a '&' (or &amp;) as an argument
> does
> not cause the process to start separately. (in fact it didn't like it at
> all)
> 
> I have also created a .sh script which -then- starts another process
> with an
> &. Running this .sh from the command prompt causes the program to run in
> the
> background, however within Ant the control does not return.
> 
> I'm guessing that Ant does not regard a <java> or <exec> to be completed
> until all child tasks have finished. Is this correct? Is this a bug (or
> even
> a feature)? Is there a workaround?
> 
> Thanks,
> Nigel
> 
> 
> ----------  Forwarded Message  ----------
> Subject: Starting Background Tasks with Ant
> Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 01:19:27 +1000
> From: Nigel Leslie <mop@nuix.com.au>
> To: ant-user@jakarta.apache.org
> 
> 
> Good Afternoon,
> 
> I am using Ant on a Linux machine, and am attempting to start a java
> process
> as a background task. However, including a '&' (or &amp;) as an argument
> does
> not cause the process to start separately. (in fact it didn't like it at
> all)
> 
> I have also created a .sh script which -then- starts another process
> with an
> &. Running this .sh from the command prompt causes the program to run in
> the
> background, however within Ant the control does not return.
> 
> I'm guessing that Ant does not regard a <java> or <exec> to be completed
> until all child tasks have finished. Is this correct? Is this a bug (or
> even
> a feature)? Is there a workaround?
> 
> Thanks,
> Nigel
> 
> --
> Nigel Leslie
> NUIX Pty Ltd
> mailto:mop@nuix.com.au


=====
(holtdl@yahoo.com)



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