DO NOT REPLY [Bug 20427] - Custom Task calls a perl script and then hangs

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Custom Task calls a perl script and then hangs





------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED]  2003-06-02 22:20 -------
Could you publish some extracts of your custom task showing how your custom 
task 
starts the Perl script ?
Do you start the Perl script by delegating to ExecuteTask ? (corresponds to the 
tag <exec/>
grep for getProject().createTask( in the source code of ant to see examples how 
this is done.

an example from SignJar.java

        final ExecTask cmd = (ExecTask) getProject().createTask("exec");
        cmd.setExecutable(JavaEnvUtils.getJdkExecutable("jarsigner"));

        if (maxMemory != null) {
            cmd.createArg().setValue("-J-Xmx" + maxMemory);
        }

        ...
        ... some arg creation skipped
        ...
        log("Signing Jar : " + jarSource.getAbsolutePath());
        cmd.setFailonerror(true);
        cmd.setTaskName(getTaskName());
        cmd.execute();

I am not sure that really a bug of ant is behind your problem, it sounds more 
like an API usage question.