Re: starting and killing background exec or java task

2005-08-12 Thread Matt Benson
--- 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

Re: starting and killing background exec or java task

2005-08-12 Thread Phil Weighill Smith
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

starting and killing background exec or java task

2005-08-12 Thread Steve Loughran
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