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There is no cross-platform way to achieve this in Java. Also, the program you want to execute in the background might hang, in which case it is quickly becoming a zombie process, since nobody knows that there is a process lingering around. Exactly the same can happen with

&

in a shell. This is the reason why there are so many programs out there to manage background processes. 😉 Use

Exec

, but wrap it in a daemon thread that executes in the background without disturbing your main process. And, be sure to give it a timeout!

Use Exec, but wrap it in a daemon thread that executes in the background without disturbing your main process

Would you have some reference for this ? I’m wondering if this feature supported by exec or do you mean just running this in a separate thread on the jvm. My usecase is that I need to trigger some scripts in the beginning and end of a build, however I do not want that that to increase the duration of the build process in itself.

Java thread. Others had a similar desire before, maybe this stuff helps you: • https://github.com/gradle/gradle/issues/1367#issuecomment-1028044555 • https://github.com/psxpaul/gradle-execfork-plugin

Thank you! I will look into these.