This was already asked before, and there's talk of a future <spawn> task. I believe also that platform-specific solutions exists with <exec vmlauncher="false">, and have been posted before.
Also, Charles Hudak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] posted on Monday, March 04, 2002 6:17 PM a message titled RE: Running <exec> tasks asynchronously on UNIX also on Windows? which provided a modification of the <exec> to allow launching executables in the background. I've already forwarded you directly that message with the code attached. Regards, --DD -----Original Message----- From: Maciej Zawadzki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 3:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Forking the exec task Hello, I am trying to basically fork the exec task so that Ant does not wait for it to return. Why? Because I would like to use Ant to start a server type application and I would like the Ant script to return even though the started application is still running. Maybe there is a simple way to do this or maybe there is a good reason why this should not be done. I've looked into using the <parallel> task but that does not do the job. A quick search through the email list archives reveals very little on this topic. Thanks for any help, --Maciej http://www.urbancode.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
