Re: getting the exec task to run a script which spawns a child process

[Melissa Hao <me...@oracle.com>]

I tried this; now the exec task doesn't hang but the bar process still stops when the ant process stops.  Is there a way to get bar to run indefinitely?

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thanks
Melissa


Bill Burton wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Melissa Hao wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I use the exec task to run a shell script called foo.sh.   foo.sh has "bar &" inside of it, which spawns a background child process.  foo.sh finishes pretty quickly, but the exec task waits for bar to finish before moving on.  This is a problem for me because bar is supposed to run indefinitely.
> >
> > I searched this mailing list but I haven't found my exact problem.  I found http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-user&m=100621497023872&w=2, which explains a workaround for getting foo.sh to run indefinitely.  Do I use the same workaround to get bar to run indefeintely?
>
> I posted a more recent version you can read at
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=ant-user&m=104322316306620&w=2.
>
> But all you need to do in foo.sh is call bar like this:
>     nohup bar </dev/null > bar.out 2>&1 &
> so that all of stdin, stdout and stderr are redirected before putting it
> in the background.
>
> -Bill
>
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