We should hold on with Olivier Lamy's PR because I want to discuss Java 9 feature. Has the *ProcessHandle* guaranteed services or they are optional due to this is strongly related to the operating systems? Regarding the PowerShell, what guarantee you have that the user has PowerShell installed on the OS? Let's not think about the latest Windows.
T On Sun, Feb 8, 2026 at 12:50 AM Michael Osipov <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you for the kind words... > > Why not use the equivalent in PowerShell? For me, it is totally fine until > the plugin moved to Maven 4... > > E.g.: > Process process = new ProcessBuilder( > "powershell", > "-NoProfile", > "-Command", > "Get-CimInstance Win32_Process -Filter \"ProcessId=" + > pid + > "\" | Select-Object -Expand ParentProcessId") > > WDYT? > > On 2026/02/07 00:21:05 Tibor Digaňa wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I would like to have your opinion regarding this issue reported on > GitHub: > > "Surefire and Failsafe stop working on latest versions of Windows due to > > missing wmic" > > Please see the link here > > https://github.com/apache/maven-surefire/issues/3176 > > > > I am the author who developed the PPID Process Checker. When I worked on > it > > together with Michael Osipov, we reached a consensus. It was a very nice > > personal collaboration, and now I would be glad to have this guy back in > > the active Maven Team again :-) > > That time we used Java 7 or Java 8, or even both, however Java 9 was > > available in the world. We could not use the Java 9 however it could > really > > help us. Therefore we decided to call the system library "wmic" on > Windows, > > and "ps" on *Nix world, and not Java 9. > > > > Due to the Microsoft Windows removed "wmic", I am open to move complete > > Surefire project under Java 9. > > > > I remember how problematic life it was when we had to support both Java 7 > > and Java 8 at the same time. I do not want to support two Java versions > > again. > > It would be easier for us to get a confidence from the Maven community > and > > switch to Java 9 directly. > > I hope we would get an exception in the list of Maven plugins. > > > > BTW, One more remark. There are strengths to destroy this project. Let's > > ignore these strengths. We can prevent from this happening if we are > > positive and we are friendly working together. > > > > > > Cheers > > Tibor17 > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
