Hi,
I noticed that on windows, if I use the exec task to run a batch script which
in turn starts other processes then if kill ant then the sub-processes created
by the batch script still continues to run. I did some research on google and
found that the default java implementation of Process.destroy does not kill the
child processes created by a process on windows. I also found that there are
some third party libraries like jvnet that provide the capability of killing
all processes created by a process on windows.
So I thought of somehow extending the 'Execute' class of ant to use the
functionality of this 3rd party library, but I find that its difficult if not
impossible to extend this class. I can't find a way to provide my
implementation of Process class that does something different when its destroy
method is called. Other core tasks such as java task directly create an
instance of the 'Execute' class which makes it difficult to globally change how
a forked process is destroyed within ant.
Is it possible to make the Execute class in ant extensible so that it becomes
possible to plugin our own implementation of Process class.
Thanks
Vimil
