[brailleblaster] Re: Java varargs

  • From: "qubit" <lauraeaves@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2010 14:21:42 -0600

John, see my previous post -- I may be wrong, but Runtime is for child 
processes that are java.
I think.
--le

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "John J. Boyer" <johnjboyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <brailleblaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, December 15, 2010 1:43 PM
Subject: [brailleblaster] Re: Java varargs


I thought the exec method in Runtime would call an external command-line
process. It spawns a separate thread for the process.

John

On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 12:35:28PM -0700, Susan Jolly wrote:
> After staring at the ProcessBuilder javadoc for a while, I realized there
> was something I didn't recognize which turns out to be a vararg, 
> introduced
> in Java 5. Only the final (or single parameter) of a method may be a
> vararg. The snytax is the type followed by three periods followed by the
> name, e.g. String ... command.   A vararg may be passed either as an array
> or as a sequence of arguments.  So ProcessBuilder can accept a String 
> array
> as an argument.  (Although, per my previous post, direct use of
> ProcessBuilder may not be want we want to do.)
>
> SusanJ
>
>
>

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