--- Steve Loughran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[SNIP]
> Life would be simpler if I could exec something in
> the background. Not
> spawned, which is designed to outlive ant, just in
> the background.
> stopping ant would stop background stuff. output
> would still go to the
> logger.
>
> I would
Would be handy. I'm assuming that the "name" could create a property of
that name, set to the process ID for example. You can then just "kill"
that process using this ID...
Phil :n.
On Fri, 2005-08-12 at 15:38 +0100, Steve Loughran wrote:
> I'm just reviewing what major changes I am needing to do
I'm just reviewing what major changes I am needing to do to my (big)
work project to simplify stuff. One troublespot is running functional
tests against a running system, I need to (maybe) start a program, run
tests against it and then stop the program if I started it (but not if
it was alrea