What if you used the <arg value="xx"/> instead of <arg line="xx xx xx"/>?

That is:

<exec executable="chmod"
  timeout="${timeout}"
  failonerror="true">
 <arg value="-R"
 <arg value="${dirMask}"
  <arg value="${path}"/>
</exec>

On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 3:20 AM, Xavi <ettikx@(protected):
> Hi, I'm migrating an app from Ant 1.6.1 to Ant 1.7.0, and I have problems
> with exec tasks. Ant execute task without passing arguments to process!
>
> For example, I have this task definition:
>
> <project name="permision" default="permision" basedir=".">
>
>      <property name="timeout" value="120000" />
>
>      <target name="permision">
>
>           <echo message="Modify directories permissions ${path}, mask
> ${dirMask}" />
>
>           <exec executable="chmod"
>                  timeout="${timeout}"
>                  failonerror="true">
>
>                 <arg line="-R ${dirMask} ${path}" />
>
>           </exec>
>
>           <echo message="Modify files permissions ${path}, mask
> ${fileMask}" />
>
>           <exec executable="/data/bin/ant/permisions.sh"
>                  timeout="${timeout}"
>                  failonerror="true">
>
>                 <arg line="${path} ${fileMask}" />
>
>           </exec>
>
>      </target>
>
> </project>
>
> An easy one, and works ok with Ant 1.6, as you can see in logs:
>
> (...)
> 23 Apr 2008 17:31:10 [INFO ] Modify directories permissions
> /data/servers/ftp, mask 755
> 23 Apr 2008 17:31:10 [DEBUG] Task "echo"finished
> 23 Apr 2008 17:31:10 [DEBUG] Task "exec" started
> 23 Apr 2008 17:31:10 [DEBUG] Current OS is AIX
> 23 Apr 2008 17:31:10 [DEBUG] Executing 'chmod' with arguments:
> '-R'
> '755'
> '/data/servers/ftp'
>
> The ' characters around the executable and arguments are
> not part of the command.
> 23 Apr 2008 17:31:10 [DEBUG] Execute:Java13CommandLauncher: Executing
> 'chmod' with arguments:
> '-R'
> '755'
> '/data/servers/ftp
>
> The ' characters around the executable and arguments are
> not part of the command.
> 23 Apr 2008 17:31:10 [INFO ]
> (...)
>
>
> With Ant 1.7.0 I get this log:
>
> 24 Apr 2008 15:49:42 [DEBUG] Task "echo" started
> 24 Apr 2008 15:49:42 [INFO ] Modify directories permissions
> /data/servers/ftp, mask 777
> 24 Apr 2008 15:49:42 [DEBUG] Task "echo"finished
> 24 Apr 2008 15:49:42 [DEBUG] Task "exec" started
> 24 Apr 2008 15:49:42 [DEBUG] Current OS is AIX
> 24 Apr 2008 15:49:42 [DEBUG] Executing 'chmod'
> The ' characters around the executable and arguments are
> not part of the command.
> 24 Apr 2008 15:49:42 [DEBUG] Execute:Java13CommandLauncher: Executing
> 'chmod'
> The ' characters around the executable and arguments are
> not part of the command.
> 24 Apr 2008 15:49:42 [INFO ] Usage: chmod [-R] [-f] [-h] {u|g|o|a ...}
> {+|-|=} {r|w|x|X|s|t ...} File ...
> 24 Apr 2008 15:49:42 [INFO ] chmod [-R] [-f] [-h] OctalNumber File ...
> 24 Apr 2008 15:49:42 [INFO ] Changes the permission codes for files or
> directories.
> 24 Apr 2008 15:49:42 [ERROR] Task "exec" finished with error (null)
> 24 Apr 2008 15:49:42 [ERROR] Target "permision" finished with error (null)
> /data/bin/ant/permisions.xml:8: exec returned: 255
>   at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.ExecTask.runExecute (ExecTask.java:636)
>   at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.ExecTask.runExec (ExecTask.java:662)
>   at org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.ExecTask.execute (ExecTask.java:487)
>   at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor16.invoke(Unknown Source)
>   at
> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke (DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:43)
>   at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke (Method.java:618)
>   at
> org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute (DispatchUtils.java:105)
>   at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform (Task.java:348)
>   at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute (Target.java:357)
>   at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks (Target.java:385)
>   at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets (Project.java:1329)
>   at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget (Project.java:1298)
>   at
> org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets (DefaultExecutor.java:41)
>   at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets (Project.java:1181)
>   at com.sbd.hardist.util.ant.AntProcess.execute(AntProcess.java:157)
>
> Ant task isn't receiving parameters!
>
> This task are executed using Ant's java api. If I execute task manually, all
> goes ok too. And if I use deprecated <exec command, all goes fine too!
>
> Someone have an idea what's happening here? Thanks in advance!
>



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