On windows fork_jtask_ does use the CreateProcess api so I'd have thought it should work OK (can't test right now).
On linux fork_jtask_ needs work to get around a bug in 2!:1 that causes it to wait for the process to finish (much like 2!:0) http://www.jsoftware.com/pipermail/programming/2009-July/015387.html On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 11:47 AM, bill lam <[email protected]> wrote: > This is a feature of console program, I imagine jconsole in J6 will behave > in the same way. You can either use CreateProcess api to start a > console-less process or start a new shell using CMD/C (or CMD/K?) to > execute jconsole. (untested). > > Чтв, 30 Дек 2010, Devon McCormick писал(а): >> All - >> >> I've recently gotten accustomed, in J6, to writing a few lines of code which >> will run for a long time to a file, then running these lines by forking off >> a non-display (console-less) version of J, e.g. >> >> (0 : 0) fwrite 'bkpUsu.ijs' >> load 'bkp' NB. Start custom backup: gather info on all files and dirs: >> 'FLNMS FLDTS FLSZS FLPARENT DIRNMS DIRDEP'=. PllDirInfoEG 'C:\' >> NB. Save these results since they took so long to gather: >> (<'/Temp/') >> fileVar_WS_&.>'FLNMS';'FLDTS';'FLSZS';'FLPARENT';'DIRNMS';'DIRDEP' >> NB. Use this information to copy most recent 10MB to dated dir: >> 'batfl cmds'=. buildBatFl_parseDir_ 10e6;'C:/Temp/NWMM20101230/' >> shell batfl >> 2!:55 '' >> ) >> >> JEXE=: 'C:\Program Files\J602\bin\J.exe' >> fork ('"',JEXE,'" -jijx '),'bkpUsu.ijs' >> >> Unfortunately, J7 seems to provide no such option, at least that I can see, >> for spinning off an independent copy of the interpreter without tying up my >> current session. >> When I tried the above using >> JEXE=: '"C:\Program Files\J701\bin\j7console" ' >> the forked process runs in my existing console window (and using the "-jijx" >> option returns an error, as one might expect). >> >> Thanks, >> >> Devon >> >> Is there an easy way to spin off an independent copy of J in J7? >> >> -- >> Devon McCormick, CFA >> ^me^ at acm. >> org is my >> preferred e-mail >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm > > -- > regards, > ==================================================== > GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 > gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
