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I think marriage is on the cards!
It works. Thanks a lot. If your a senior person at apache and are reading
this please put these post's(or a better edited version of) in the FAQ.
Excellent advice... with special thanks to Robert McGovern.....
Keith
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From: Robert McGovern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Java Apache Users <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: Runtime.getRuntime().exec("mkdir Ihaveaproblem")............
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> Alan R Williamson wrote:
> >
> > Yeah, but its not at all portable, its also a lot more resource hungry
as
> > your having to shell a separate process to do this. It would be much
easier
> > to use the java.io.File suite of classes/methods to do this, will making
it
> > all portable.
>
> Morning Alan, I'll have a look at it. I can see the sense in having Java
> do a load of the work. Esp when doing things like listing directories
> and such.
>
> There are times however when I will need to run specfic system commands,
> for instance cvs checkout and sudo. In those cases it still looks like I
> will need to start a sub process via Runtime but that will be okay
> because they would occur on rarer occasions.
>
> I was going to ask about how resource hungry but I've just seen the
> figures, 600k mem and around 2.5% cpu on a 450. This was for running a
> cvs checkout.
>
> > I have seen this many times before, where people say, 'but it will only
ever
> > run on Unix', but somebody somewhere wants it on another before too
long.
>
> In this instance, in theory, it will. The requirement for a CVS Servlet
> frontend is part of an inhouse proposal to move the companies work areas
> to being stored on a Linux server and just made available as a network
> drive via samba. Everyone in the company uses Windows boxes, bar us
> (Linux), and the guy putting the propsal forward is a Linux bod (and a
> contracter). To do part of this we need to run sudo, so that the project
> gets checked out from CVS as the particular user and to his or her home
> directory.
>
> > Save yourself lots of work in the future, and allow Java do as much as
> > possible.
>
> Thank you :)
>
> Rob
>
>
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