cvs commit: ant/docs/manual/CoreTasks exec.html

[stevel]

stevel      2004/11/05 00:58:10

  Modified:    docs/manual/CoreTasks exec.html
  Log:
  PR: 32066: exec favours .exe over . com. Yes, it does.
  
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  1.42      +12 -0     ant/docs/manual/CoreTasks/exec.html
  
  Index: exec.html
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  RCS file: /home/cvs/ant/docs/manual/CoreTasks/exec.html,v
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  diff -u -r1.41 -r1.42
  --- exec.html 10 Sep 2004 15:16:11 -0000      1.41
  +++ exec.html 5 Nov 2004 08:58:09 -0000       1.42
  @@ -18,6 +18,18 @@
   in Ant 1.6, any attempt to read input in the forked program will receive an
   EOF (-1). This is a change from Ant 1.5, where such an attempt would 
block.</p>
   
  +
  +
  +<h4>Windows Users</h4>
  +<p>The &lt;exec&gt; task delegates to <code>Runtime.exec</code> which in turn
  +apparently calls <a 
href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dllproc/base/createprocess.asp";>
  +<code>::CreateProcess</code></a>. It is the latter Win32 function that 
defines
  +the exact semantics of the call. In particular, if you do not put a file 
extension
  +on the executable, only ".EXE" files are looked for, not ".COM", ".CMD" or 
other file
  +types listed in the environment variable PATHEXT. That is only used by the 
shell.
  +
  +</p>
  +
   <h4>Cygwin Users</h4>
   <p>In general the &lt;exec&gt; task will not understand paths such as 
/bin/sh for
   the executable parameter. This is because the Java VM in which Ant is 
running is a
  
  
  

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