Are you planning on implementing it? If not, I can finish it up sometime
this week after I get Japhar Patch #2 up on the web.
--John Keiser
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of
> Brian Jones
> Sent: Tuesday, December 01, 1998 7:31 AM
> To: John Keiser
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: Runtime.exec()
>
>
> "John Keiser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > > From: Brian Jones
> > > Subject: Runtime.exec()
> > >
> > > Where is nativeExec(String[] cmd, String[] env) defined?
> > > I know that Runtime.exec should create an instance of a subclass of
> > > java.lang.Process.
> > >
> >
> > Right now, there is none. Process is sort of independent of
> VM, so I didn't
> > bother with it in my integration efforts. It would be a good
> thing to add.
> > The best thing to do would actually be to add a package-private method
> > "static Process Process.exec(String[] cmd, String[] env)" and
> call that from
> > Runtime.exec(). If you want to make it native, you can.
> >
> > Does it have to return a subclass of Process, or can it return
> an instance
> > of Process itself if it so desires? Will there ever be
> multiple *types* of
> > processes running on the same machine?
> >
> > --John Keiser
>
> My guess is that Sun subclassed Process into things like UNIXProcess,
> WindowsProcess, MacOSProcess, OSXProcess, etc. Process itself is
> basically an abstract class with a few abstract methods. The
> constructor isn't abstract however and there is nothing in the
> javadocs to indicate what it would do.
>
> According to the javadoc for it, yes Runtime.exec should return a
> subclass of Process.
>
> The Process class is independent of the VM, but real processes are
> dependent on the native platform. My guess would be to create a
> package private subclass and add whatever you need to it to keep track
> of children processes and native code to perform the exec, kill, and
> redirection of stdin, stdout, and stderr.
>
> Brian
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