Bug#568953: ITP: commons-exec -- a library to reliably execute external processes from within the JVM
* Peter Collingbourne:
> On Tue, Feb 09, 2010 at 02:06:34PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> * 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.
>
> It is a dependency of another package I am packaging
> (clojure-maven-plugin, ITP soon).
Could you port that to Java 6, please?
Reply to: