Call runtime.exec(), but not as a child process?

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BigCohunes@gmail.com - 07 Sep 2006 17:53 GMT

Can someone show me how I would go about having a java program launch a
different program, but not as a child process?

For example, I would like my java program to launch "calc.exe". I then
want my java program to be able to finish its processing and end. I
don't want the java program to have to wait for the calc.exe process to
be finished also.

Any idea's?

Thanks

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Knute Johnson - 07 Sep 2006 18:06 GMT

> Can someone show me how I would go about having a java program launch a
> different program, but not as a child process?
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> Thanks

Then don't wait for it. It should work fine as long as there isn't any
console I/O in your execed program.

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BigCohunes@gmail.com - 07 Sep 2006 18:30 GMT

> Then don't wait for it. It should work fine as long as there isn't any
> console I/O in your execed program.
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> Knute Johnson
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Thanks!

My problem turned out to be that I was running it in a IDE (IntelliJ).
It seems that IntelliJ did not consider the java program was finished
until the child process was exited also.

However when I ran from command line it worked as expected.

Thanks again

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Call runtime.exec(), but not as a child process?

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