Hi, Yes, it looks to be implemented in this PR: https://github.com/apache/maven-surefire/pull/3258? Sorry, I'm not a Windows user, so I can not really have a strong opinion there.
On Sun, 8 Feb 2026 at 09:52, Michael Osipov <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thank you for the kind words... > > Why not use the equivalent in PowerShell? For me, it is totally fine until > the plugin moved to Maven 4... > > E.g.: > Process process = new ProcessBuilder( > "powershell", > "-NoProfile", > "-Command", > "Get-CimInstance Win32_Process -Filter \"ProcessId=" + > pid + > "\" | Select-Object -Expand ParentProcessId") > > WDYT? > > On 2026/02/07 00:21:05 Tibor Digaňa wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I would like to have your opinion regarding this issue reported on GitHub: > > "Surefire and Failsafe stop working on latest versions of Windows due to > > missing wmic" > > Please see the link here > > https://github.com/apache/maven-surefire/issues/3176 > > > > I am the author who developed the PPID Process Checker. When I worked on it > > together with Michael Osipov, we reached a consensus. It was a very nice > > personal collaboration, and now I would be glad to have this guy back in > > the active Maven Team again :-) > > That time we used Java 7 or Java 8, or even both, however Java 9 was > > available in the world. We could not use the Java 9 however it could really > > help us. Therefore we decided to call the system library "wmic" on Windows, > > and "ps" on *Nix world, and not Java 9. > > > > Due to the Microsoft Windows removed "wmic", I am open to move complete > > Surefire project under Java 9. > > > > I remember how problematic life it was when we had to support both Java 7 > > and Java 8 at the same time. I do not want to support two Java versions > > again. > > It would be easier for us to get a confidence from the Maven community and > > switch to Java 9 directly. > > I hope we would get an exception in the list of Maven plugins. > > > > BTW, One more remark. There are strengths to destroy this project. Let's > > ignore these strengths. We can prevent from this happening if we are > > positive and we are friendly working together. > > > > > > Cheers > > Tibor17 > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
