Thanks! sh -c "exec java ..." worked!
Earlier the script only had "exec java ..." On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 7:15 AM, Sanjiva Weerawarana <sanj...@wso2.com>wrote: > Its good to use exec so that the parent shell process doesn't hang around. > That's common practice for shell scripts which set up a bunch of stuff and > run something else right at the end. > > But that should not be a problem as the process exit status should be that > of the exec'ed command IIRC (new command is run in the same process). > > Here's a small test: > > $ cat /tmp/foo.sh > #!/bin/sh > > exit 79 > $ sh -c "exec /tmp/foo.sh" > $ echo $? > 79 > > Sanjiva. > > On Sat, Apr 16, 2011 at 4:13 AM, Afkham Azeez <az...@wso2.com> wrote: > >> Instead of simply doing; "java ..." we do "exec java ...". Why have we >> used exec here? I'm trying to solve the restart issue using exit codes, and >> when exec is used, the process exit code cannot be captured. >> >> -- >> *Afkham Azeez* >> Senior Software Architect & Senior Manager; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com, >> * >> * >> *Member; Apache Software Foundation; >> **http://www.apache.org/*<http://www.apache.org/> >> * >> email: **az...@wso2.com* <az...@wso2.com>* cell: +94 77 3320919 >> blog: **http://blog.afkham.org* <http://blog.afkham.org>* >> twitter: **http://twitter.com/afkham_azeez*<http://twitter.com/afkham_azeez> >> * >> linked-in: **http://lk.linkedin.com/in/afkhamazeez* >> * >> * >> *Lean . Enterprise . Middleware* >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Carbon-dev mailing list >> Carbon-dev@wso2.org >> http://mail.wso2.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/carbon-dev >> >> > > > -- > Sanjiva Weerawarana, Ph.D. > Founder, Chairman & CEO; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com/ > email: sanj...@wso2.com; phone: +94 11 763 9614; cell: +94 77 787 6880 | +1 > 650 265 8311 > blog: http://sanjiva.weerawarana.org/ > > Lean . Enterprise . Middleware > -- *Afkham Azeez* Senior Software Architect & Senior Manager; WSO2, Inc.; http://wso2.com, * * *Member; Apache Software Foundation; **http://www.apache.org/*<http://www.apache.org/> * email: **az...@wso2.com* <az...@wso2.com>* cell: +94 77 3320919 blog: **http://blog.afkham.org* <http://blog.afkham.org>* twitter: **http://twitter.com/afkham_azeez*<http://twitter.com/afkham_azeez> * linked-in: **http://lk.linkedin.com/in/afkhamazeez* * * *Lean . Enterprise . Middleware*
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