Re: getting result back from an task

[Nico Seessle]

----- Original Message ----- From: Steve Donie To: Ant-User (E-mail) Sent: Monday, January 22, 2001 5:11 PM Subject: getting result back from an <exec> task Is there any way to get the exit code from an <exec> (or an <ant>) task and use that - put it into a property, something like that?  It would be possible to put the exit-code from exec into a property (by changing ant's code). Currently both will completely exit the build-process. For exec you could use 'failonerror="false"' to avoid this, but you can't test for the result form inside your buildfile.   Can you tell us for what you would use this?   Nico