Bug#568953: ITP: commons-exec -- a library to reliably execute external processes from within the JVM

To: Peter Collingbourne <peter@pcc.me.uk>
Cc: 568953@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Bug#568953: ITP: commons-exec -- a library to reliably execute external processes from within the JVM
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:06:34 +0100
Message-id: <[🔎] 871vguh82t.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
Reply-to: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>, 568953@bugs.debian.org
In-reply-to: <[🔎] 20100209002832.21374.52605.reportbug@lapas.pcc.me.uk> (Peter Collingbourne's message of "Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:28:32 +0000")
References: <[🔎] 20100209002832.21374.52605.reportbug@lapas.pcc.me.uk>

* Peter Collingbourne:

>  Executing external processes from Java is a well-known problem
>  area. It is inherently platform dependent and requires the developer
>  to know and test for platform specific behaviors, for example
>  using cmd.exe on Windows or limited buffer sizes causing deadlocks.
>  The JRE support for this is very limited, albeit better with the
>  new Java SE 1.5 ProcessBuilder class.

Do we really need this anymore?  Java 1.4 is dead, after all.

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