On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 05:42 pm, Stefan Bodewig wrote: > On 28 Jul 2003, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > in the sense that I do not connect at all the new process to > > stream handlers and the ant logging system, disabling input, > > output, error, and return exec attributes in the case of spawn. > > Won't this cause > > (1) the spawned process to hang as soon as it tries to read from stdin > (no big deal as it isn't supposed to do so, I guess). >
Just off the top of my head, I think we can close that stream which will cause an EOF rather than a hang. > (2) the spawned process to be stoped or even killed by the system (at > least Unix) as soon as it tries to write to stdout or stderr (probably > either with SIGTTOU, SIGPIPE or SIGHUP). > > The better approach for (2) would probably be to enforce the output > and or error attributes to be set for spawn="true" and probably use OS > specific redirections instead of stream handlers to ensure the spawned > process will never try to write to stdout/err. > Why not just "caveat user" :-) Conor --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
