Re: Runtime.exec() implementation

[Ranjit Mathew]

Archie Cobbs wrote:
> I wrote an implementation of Runtime.exec() (including a new class
> java.lang.VMProcess which extends java.lang.Process and native code)
> for JC. This can be easily merged into Classpath if people want it.
> It seems like a pretty glaring omission.
> 
> This uses the usual Unix functions of fork(), exec(), waitpid(), etc.
> and should be as portable as the existing native code.  I'd have to
> rewrite my JCNI native code in JNI but that would be easy.
> 
> Let me know if people are interested.

libgcj, the runtime library of GCJ based on Classpath
already has a native java.lang.Process implementation
for POSIX and Win32.

Ranjit.

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