Re: running tasks in the background

[Stefan Bodewig]

Salman Halim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> i wanted to extend the 'fork' capability of the java task to other
> executables.

The java task when using fork="true" shows exactly the same behavior
as exec, it waits for the forked process to finish.

The currently is no way to do asynchronous executions, apart from
invoking a script that invokes the command you really wanted to run
and puts it into the background.

Stefan