Unfortunately, Java doesn't provide such a primitive. Runtime.exec() always waits for its child, and worse (if you're trying to create a daemon) it creates a stdin/stdout two-way "pipe" between the parent and child so that they can talk to each other.
However, I'm sure you can create an appropriate class that uses JNI to accomplish this. The reason J2SE doesn't do this is that it's nearly impossible to define a precise semantics to this operation that's portable across every host OS (Unix, Windows, Mac, VMS, ...), but if you're not worried about portability (or only care about a couple of OSes like POSIX and Win32), you could do something acceptable.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Inger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Subject: Re: running daemons
>
> what would be nice is if there were a way to tell it not to
> wait for it to return.
