In the past, when I contemplated doing this, I generally thought that there wasn't enough value in such a feature for the effort, given that one can start a subprocess shell that supports pipelines. Does this feature pull its weight?
You don't need this to re-implement emacs in java, which has always been my litmus test. The missing feature is pty support, that y'all are less likely to add... On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 7:48 AM, Roger Riggs <roger.ri...@oracle.com> wrote: > On most operating systems, creating pipelines of processes is simple and > direct. > That same function is missing from the Java Process support and can be > provided by > java.lang.ProcessBuilder by enabling the pipes created for stdout to be > used for standard input when the processes are created. > Comments and feedback are appreciated on the prototype API and > implementation. > > Javadoc: java.lang.ProcessBuilder.startPipe: > > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rriggs/pipedoc/java/lang/ProcessBuilder.html#startPipe-java.lang.ProcessBuilder...- > > webrev prototype: > http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~rriggs//webrev-pipeline-8132394 > > Thanks, Roger > >
