gregsmit wrote:
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> Thanks -- That's what I thought (and what I've seen before) That if you
> started to read from the out/err of the child process, then it would
> spawning doesn't work, IE, the parent exit causes the child to exit.
>
> Do you unhook the input and output by closing the channels, something like
> this:
> process.getInputStream().getChannel().close()?
>
> If I call that for the input, output, and error streams, without reading out
> a single byte, then a process created through Runtime.exec() can live after
> my Java process?
>
> That's really cool, and not something I've really been able to find out
> anywhere else.
>

I think so, though you'd have to ask on the developer list to be sure.
All I know is that code is complex, but it has reached that level of
complexity in order to work everywhere.

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