@theia/task 1.34.2 → 1.34.3

package/src/node/process/process-task-runner.ts

@@ -1,371 +1,371 @@
-// *****************************************************************************
-// Copyright (C) 2017-2019 Ericsson and others.
-//
-// This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
-// terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 which is available at
-// http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0.
-//
-// This Source Code may also be made available under the following Secondary
-// Licenses when the conditions for such availability set forth in the Eclipse
-// Public License v. 2.0 are satisfied: GNU General Public License, version 2
-// with the GNU Classpath Exception which is available at
-// https://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/license.html.
-//
-// SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0 OR GPL-2.0 WITH Classpath-exception-2.0
-// *****************************************************************************
-
-/*---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- *  Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
- *  Licensed under the MIT License. See License.txt in the project root for license information.
- *--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
-
-import { injectable, inject, named } from '@theia/core/shared/inversify';
-import { deepClone, isWindows, isOSX, ILogger } from '@theia/core';
-import { FileUri } from '@theia/core/lib/node';
-import {
-    RawProcessFactory,
-    ProcessErrorEvent,
-    Process,
-    TerminalProcessOptions,
-    TaskTerminalProcessFactory,
-} from '@theia/process/lib/node';
-import {
-    ShellQuotedString, ShellQuotingFunctions, BashQuotingFunctions, CmdQuotingFunctions, PowershellQuotingFunctions, createShellCommandLine, ShellQuoting,
-} from '@theia/process/lib/common/shell-quoting';
-import { TaskFactory } from './process-task';
-import { TaskRunner } from '../task-runner-protocol';
-import { Task } from '../task';
-import { TaskConfiguration } from '../../common/task-protocol';
-import { ProcessTaskError, CommandOptions } from '../../common/process/task-protocol';
-import * as fs from 'fs';
-import { ShellProcess } from '@theia/terminal/lib/node/shell-process';
-
-export interface OsSpecificCommand {
-    command: string,
-    args: Array<string | ShellQuotedString> | undefined,
-    options: CommandOptions
-}
-
-export interface ShellSpecificOptions {
-    /** Arguments passed to the shell, aka `command` here. */
-    execArgs: string[];
-    /** Pack of functions used to escape the `subCommand` and `subArgs` to run in the shell. */
-    quotingFunctions?: ShellQuotingFunctions;
-}
-
-/**
- * Task runner that runs a task as a process or a command inside a shell.
- */
-@injectable()
-export class ProcessTaskRunner implements TaskRunner {
-
-    @inject(ILogger) @named('task')
-    protected readonly logger: ILogger;
-
-    @inject(RawProcessFactory)
-    protected readonly rawProcessFactory: RawProcessFactory;
-
-    @inject(TaskTerminalProcessFactory)
-    protected readonly taskTerminalProcessFactory: TaskTerminalProcessFactory;
-
-    @inject(TaskFactory)
-    protected readonly taskFactory: TaskFactory;
-
-    /**
-     * Runs a task from the given task configuration.
-     * @param taskConfig task configuration to run a task from. The provided task configuration must have a shape of `CommandProperties`.
-     */
-    async run(taskConfig: TaskConfiguration, ctx?: string): Promise<Task> {
-        if (!taskConfig.command) {
-            throw new Error("Process task config must have 'command' property specified");
-        }
-        try {
-            // Always spawn a task in a pty, the only difference between shell/process tasks is the
-            // way the command is passed:
-            // - process: directly look for an executable and pass a specific set of arguments/options.
-            // - shell: defer the spawning to a shell that will evaluate a command line with our executable.
-            const terminalProcessOptions = this.getResolvedCommand(taskConfig);
-            const terminal: Process = this.taskTerminalProcessFactory(terminalProcessOptions);
-
-            // Wait for the confirmation that the process is successfully started, or has failed to start.
-            await new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
-                terminal.onStart(resolve);
-                terminal.onError((error: ProcessErrorEvent) => {
-                    reject(ProcessTaskError.CouldNotRun(error.code));
-                });
-            });
-
-            const processType = (taskConfig.taskType || taskConfig.type) as 'process' | 'shell';
-            return this.taskFactory({
-                label: taskConfig.label,
-                process: terminal,
-                processType,
-                context: ctx,
-                config: taskConfig,
-                command: this.getCommand(processType, terminalProcessOptions)
-            });
-        } catch (error) {
-            this.logger.error(`Error occurred while creating task: ${error}`);
-            throw error;
-        }
-    }
-
-    protected getResolvedCommand(taskConfig: TaskConfiguration): TerminalProcessOptions {
-        const osSpecificCommand = this.getOsSpecificCommand(taskConfig);
-
-        const options = osSpecificCommand.options;
-
-        // Use task's cwd with spawned process and pass node env object to
-        // new process, so e.g. we can re-use the system path
-        if (options) {
-            options.env = {
-                ...process.env,
-                ...(options.env || {})
-            };
-        }
-
-        /** Executable to actually spawn. */
-        let command: string;
-        /** List of arguments passed to `command`. */
-        let args: string[];
-
-        /**
-         * Only useful on Windows, has to do with how node-pty handles complex commands.
-         * This string should not include the executable, only what comes after it (arguments).
-         */
-        let commandLine: string | undefined;
-
-        if ((taskConfig.taskType || taskConfig.type) === 'shell') {
-            // When running a shell task, we have to spawn a shell process somehow,
-            // and tell it to run the command the user wants to run inside of it.
-            //
-            // E.g:
-            // - Spawning a process:
-            //     spawn(process_exe, [...args])
-            // - Spawning a shell and run a command:
-            //     spawn(shell_exe, [shell_exec_cmd_flag, command])
-            //
-            // The fun part is, the `command` to pass as an argument usually has to be
-            // what you would type verbatim inside the shell, so escaping rules apply.
-            //
-            // What's even more funny is that on Windows, node-pty uses a special
-            // mechanism to pass complex escaped arguments, via a string.
-            //
-            // We need to accommodate most shells, so we need to get specific.
-
-            const { shell } = osSpecificCommand.options;
-
-            command = shell?.executable || ShellProcess.getShellExecutablePath();
-            const { execArgs, quotingFunctions } = this.getShellSpecificOptions(command);
-
-            // Allow overriding shell options from task configuration.
-            args = shell?.args ? [...shell.args] : [...execArgs];
-
-            // Check if an argument list is defined or not. Empty is ok.
-            /** Shell command to run: */
-            const shellCommand = this.buildShellCommand(osSpecificCommand, quotingFunctions);
-
-            if (isWindows && /cmd(.exe)?$/.test(command)) {
-                // Let's take the following command, including an argument containing whitespace:
-                //     cmd> node -p process.argv 1 2 "  3"
-                //
-                // We would expect the following output:
-                //     json> [ '...\\node.exe', '1', '2', '  3' ]
-                //
-                // Let's run this command through `cmd.exe` using `child_process`:
-                //     js> void childprocess.spawn('cmd.exe', ['/s', '/c', 'node -p process.argv 1 2 "  3"']).stderr.on('data', console.log)
-                //
-                // We get the correct output, but when using node-pty:
-                //     js> void nodepty.spawn('cmd.exe', ['/s', '/c', 'node -p process.argv 1 2 "  3"']).on('data', console.log)
-                //
-                // Then the output looks like:
-                //     json> [ '...\\node.exe', '1', '2', '"', '3"' ]
-                //
-                // To fix that, we need to use a special node-pty feature and pass arguments as one string:
-                //     js> nodepty.spawn('cmd.exe', '/s /c "node -p process.argv 1 2 "  3""')
-                //
-                // Note the extra quotes that need to be added around the whole command.
-                commandLine = [...args, `"${shellCommand}"`].join(' ');
-            }
-
-            args.push(shellCommand);
-        } else {
-            // When running process tasks, `command` is the executable to run,
-            // and `args` are the arguments we want to pass to it.
-            command = osSpecificCommand.command;
-            if (Array.isArray(osSpecificCommand.args)) {
-                // Process task doesn't handle quotation: Normalize arguments from `ShellQuotedString` to raw `string`.
-                args = osSpecificCommand.args.map(arg => typeof arg === 'string' ? arg : arg.value);
-            } else {
-                args = [];
-            }
-        }
-        return { command, args, commandLine, options };
-    }
-
-    protected buildShellCommand(systemSpecificCommand: OsSpecificCommand, quotingFunctions?: ShellQuotingFunctions): string {
-        if (Array.isArray(systemSpecificCommand.args)) {
-            const commandLineElements: Array<string | ShellQuotedString> = [systemSpecificCommand.command, ...systemSpecificCommand.args].map(arg => {
-                // We want to quote arguments only if needed.
-                if (quotingFunctions && typeof arg === 'string' && this.argumentNeedsQuotes(arg, quotingFunctions)) {
-                    return {
-                        quoting: ShellQuoting.Strong,
-                        value: arg,
-                    };
-                } else {
-                    return arg;
-                }
-            });
-            return createShellCommandLine(commandLineElements, quotingFunctions);
-        } else {
-            // No arguments are provided, so `command` is actually the full command line to execute.
-            return systemSpecificCommand.command ?? '';
-        }
-    }
-
-    protected getShellSpecificOptions(command: string): ShellSpecificOptions {
-        if (/bash(.exe)?$/.test(command)) {
-            return {
-                quotingFunctions: BashQuotingFunctions,
-                execArgs: ['-c']
-            };
-        } else if (/wsl(.exe)?$/.test(command)) {
-            return {
-                quotingFunctions: BashQuotingFunctions,
-                execArgs: ['-e']
-            };
-        } else if (/cmd(.exe)?$/.test(command)) {
-            return {
-                quotingFunctions: CmdQuotingFunctions,
-                execArgs: ['/S', '/C']
-            };
-        } else if (/(ps|pwsh|powershell)(.exe)?/.test(command)) {
-            return {
-                quotingFunctions: PowershellQuotingFunctions,
-                execArgs: ['-c']
-            };
-        } else {
-            return {
-                quotingFunctions: BashQuotingFunctions,
-                execArgs: ['-l', '-c']
-            };
-        }
-    }
-
-    protected getOsSpecificCommand(taskConfig: TaskConfiguration): OsSpecificCommand {
-        // on windows, windows-specific options, if available, take precedence
-        if (isWindows && taskConfig.windows !== undefined) {
-            return this.getSystemSpecificCommand(taskConfig, 'windows');
-        } else if (isOSX && taskConfig.osx !== undefined) { // on macOS, mac-specific options, if available, take precedence
-            return this.getSystemSpecificCommand(taskConfig, 'osx');
-        } else if (!isWindows && !isOSX && taskConfig.linux !== undefined) { // on linux, linux-specific options, if available, take precedence
-            return this.getSystemSpecificCommand(taskConfig, 'linux');
-        } else { // system-specific options are unavailable, use the default
-            return this.getSystemSpecificCommand(taskConfig, undefined);
-        }
-    }
-
-    protected getCommand(processType: 'process' | 'shell', terminalProcessOptions: TerminalProcessOptions): string | undefined {
-        if (terminalProcessOptions.args) {
-            if (processType === 'shell') {
-                return terminalProcessOptions.args[terminalProcessOptions.args.length - 1];
-            } else if (processType === 'process') {
-                return `${terminalProcessOptions.command} ${terminalProcessOptions.args.join(' ')}`;
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * This is task specific, to align with VS Code's behavior.
-     *
-     * When parsing arguments, VS Code will try to detect if the user already
-     * tried to quote things.
-     *
-     * See: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/d363b988e1e58cf49963841c498681cdc6cb55a3/src/vs/workbench/contrib/tasks/browser/terminalTaskSystem.ts#L1101-L1127
-     *
-     * @param value
-     * @param shellQuotingOptions
-     */
-    protected argumentNeedsQuotes(value: string, shellQuotingOptions: ShellQuotingFunctions): boolean {
-        const { characters } = shellQuotingOptions;
-        const needQuotes = new Set([' ', ...characters.needQuotes || []]);
-        if (!characters) {
-            return false;
-        }
-        if (value.length >= 2) {
-            const first = value[0] === characters.strong ? characters.strong : value[0] === characters.weak ? characters.weak : undefined;
-            if (first === value[value.length - 1]) {
-                return false;
-            }
-        }
-        let quote: string | undefined;
-        for (let i = 0; i < value.length; i++) {
-            // We found the end quote.
-            const ch = value[i];
-            if (ch === quote) {
-                quote = undefined;
-            } else if (quote !== undefined) {
-                // skip the character. We are quoted.
-                continue;
-            } else if (ch === characters.escape) {
-                // Skip the next character
-                i++;
-            } else if (ch === characters.strong || ch === characters.weak) {
-                quote = ch;
-            } else if (needQuotes.has(ch)) {
-                return true;
-            }
-        }
-        return false;
-    }
-
-    protected getSystemSpecificCommand(taskConfig: TaskConfiguration, system: 'windows' | 'linux' | 'osx' | undefined): OsSpecificCommand {
-        // initialize with default values from the `taskConfig`
-        let command: string | undefined = taskConfig.command;
-        let args: Array<string | ShellQuotedString> | undefined = taskConfig.args;
-        let options: CommandOptions = deepClone(taskConfig.options) || {};
-
-        if (system) {
-            if (taskConfig[system].command) {
-                command = taskConfig[system].command;
-            }
-            if (taskConfig[system].args) {
-                args = taskConfig[system].args;
-            }
-            if (taskConfig[system].options) {
-                options = taskConfig[system].options;
-            }
-        }
-
-        if (options.cwd) {
-            options.cwd = this.asFsPath(options.cwd);
-        }
-
-        if (command === undefined) {
-            throw new Error('The `command` field of a task cannot be undefined.');
-        }
-
-        return { command, args, options };
-    }
-
-    protected asFsPath(uriOrPath: string): string {
-        return (uriOrPath.startsWith('file:'))
-            ? FileUri.fsPath(uriOrPath)
-            : uriOrPath;
-    }
-
-    /**
-     * @deprecated
-     *
-     * Remove ProcessTaskRunner.findCommand, introduce process "started" event
-     * Checks for the existence of a file, at the provided path, and make sure that
-     * it's readable and executable.
-     */
-    protected async executableFileExists(filePath: string): Promise<boolean> {
-        return new Promise<boolean>(async (resolve, reject) => {
-            fs.access(filePath, fs.constants.F_OK | fs.constants.X_OK, err => {
-                resolve(err ? false : true);
-            });
-        });
-    }
-}
+// *****************************************************************************
+// Copyright (C) 2017-2019 Ericsson and others.
+//
+// This program and the accompanying materials are made available under the
+// terms of the Eclipse Public License v. 2.0 which is available at
+// http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-2.0.
+//
+// This Source Code may also be made available under the following Secondary
+// Licenses when the conditions for such availability set forth in the Eclipse
+// Public License v. 2.0 are satisfied: GNU General Public License, version 2
+// with the GNU Classpath Exception which is available at
+// https://www.gnu.org/software/classpath/license.html.
+//
+// SPDX-License-Identifier: EPL-2.0 OR GPL-2.0 WITH Classpath-exception-2.0
+// *****************************************************************************
+
+/*---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+ *  Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.
+ *  Licensed under the MIT License. See License.txt in the project root for license information.
+ *--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
+
+import { injectable, inject, named } from '@theia/core/shared/inversify';
+import { deepClone, isWindows, isOSX, ILogger } from '@theia/core';
+import { FileUri } from '@theia/core/lib/node';
+import {
+    RawProcessFactory,
+    ProcessErrorEvent,
+    Process,
+    TerminalProcessOptions,
+    TaskTerminalProcessFactory,
+} from '@theia/process/lib/node';
+import {
+    ShellQuotedString, ShellQuotingFunctions, BashQuotingFunctions, CmdQuotingFunctions, PowershellQuotingFunctions, createShellCommandLine, ShellQuoting,
+} from '@theia/process/lib/common/shell-quoting';
+import { TaskFactory } from './process-task';
+import { TaskRunner } from '../task-runner-protocol';
+import { Task } from '../task';
+import { TaskConfiguration } from '../../common/task-protocol';
+import { ProcessTaskError, CommandOptions } from '../../common/process/task-protocol';
+import * as fs from 'fs';
+import { ShellProcess } from '@theia/terminal/lib/node/shell-process';
+
+export interface OsSpecificCommand {
+    command: string,
+    args: Array<string | ShellQuotedString> | undefined,
+    options: CommandOptions
+}
+
+export interface ShellSpecificOptions {
+    /** Arguments passed to the shell, aka `command` here. */
+    execArgs: string[];
+    /** Pack of functions used to escape the `subCommand` and `subArgs` to run in the shell. */
+    quotingFunctions?: ShellQuotingFunctions;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Task runner that runs a task as a process or a command inside a shell.
+ */
+@injectable()
+export class ProcessTaskRunner implements TaskRunner {
+
+    @inject(ILogger) @named('task')
+    protected readonly logger: ILogger;
+
+    @inject(RawProcessFactory)
+    protected readonly rawProcessFactory: RawProcessFactory;
+
+    @inject(TaskTerminalProcessFactory)
+    protected readonly taskTerminalProcessFactory: TaskTerminalProcessFactory;
+
+    @inject(TaskFactory)
+    protected readonly taskFactory: TaskFactory;
+
+    /**
+     * Runs a task from the given task configuration.
+     * @param taskConfig task configuration to run a task from. The provided task configuration must have a shape of `CommandProperties`.
+     */
+    async run(taskConfig: TaskConfiguration, ctx?: string): Promise<Task> {
+        if (!taskConfig.command) {
+            throw new Error("Process task config must have 'command' property specified");
+        }
+        try {
+            // Always spawn a task in a pty, the only difference between shell/process tasks is the
+            // way the command is passed:
+            // - process: directly look for an executable and pass a specific set of arguments/options.
+            // - shell: defer the spawning to a shell that will evaluate a command line with our executable.
+            const terminalProcessOptions = this.getResolvedCommand(taskConfig);
+            const terminal: Process = this.taskTerminalProcessFactory(terminalProcessOptions);
+
+            // Wait for the confirmation that the process is successfully started, or has failed to start.
+            await new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
+                terminal.onStart(resolve);
+                terminal.onError((error: ProcessErrorEvent) => {
+                    reject(ProcessTaskError.CouldNotRun(error.code));
+                });
+            });
+
+            const processType = (taskConfig.taskType || taskConfig.type) as 'process' | 'shell';
+            return this.taskFactory({
+                label: taskConfig.label,
+                process: terminal,
+                processType,
+                context: ctx,
+                config: taskConfig,
+                command: this.getCommand(processType, terminalProcessOptions)
+            });
+        } catch (error) {
+            this.logger.error(`Error occurred while creating task: ${error}`);
+            throw error;
+        }
+    }
+
+    protected getResolvedCommand(taskConfig: TaskConfiguration): TerminalProcessOptions {
+        const osSpecificCommand = this.getOsSpecificCommand(taskConfig);
+
+        const options = osSpecificCommand.options;
+
+        // Use task's cwd with spawned process and pass node env object to
+        // new process, so e.g. we can re-use the system path
+        if (options) {
+            options.env = {
+                ...process.env,
+                ...(options.env || {})
+            };
+        }
+
+        /** Executable to actually spawn. */
+        let command: string;
+        /** List of arguments passed to `command`. */
+        let args: string[];
+
+        /**
+         * Only useful on Windows, has to do with how node-pty handles complex commands.
+         * This string should not include the executable, only what comes after it (arguments).
+         */
+        let commandLine: string | undefined;
+
+        if ((taskConfig.taskType || taskConfig.type) === 'shell') {
+            // When running a shell task, we have to spawn a shell process somehow,
+            // and tell it to run the command the user wants to run inside of it.
+            //
+            // E.g:
+            // - Spawning a process:
+            //     spawn(process_exe, [...args])
+            // - Spawning a shell and run a command:
+            //     spawn(shell_exe, [shell_exec_cmd_flag, command])
+            //
+            // The fun part is, the `command` to pass as an argument usually has to be
+            // what you would type verbatim inside the shell, so escaping rules apply.
+            //
+            // What's even more funny is that on Windows, node-pty uses a special
+            // mechanism to pass complex escaped arguments, via a string.
+            //
+            // We need to accommodate most shells, so we need to get specific.
+
+            const { shell } = osSpecificCommand.options;
+
+            command = shell?.executable || ShellProcess.getShellExecutablePath();
+            const { execArgs, quotingFunctions } = this.getShellSpecificOptions(command);
+
+            // Allow overriding shell options from task configuration.
+            args = shell?.args ? [...shell.args] : [...execArgs];
+
+            // Check if an argument list is defined or not. Empty is ok.
+            /** Shell command to run: */
+            const shellCommand = this.buildShellCommand(osSpecificCommand, quotingFunctions);
+
+            if (isWindows && /cmd(.exe)?$/.test(command)) {
+                // Let's take the following command, including an argument containing whitespace:
+                //     cmd> node -p process.argv 1 2 "  3"
+                //
+                // We would expect the following output:
+                //     json> [ '...\\node.exe', '1', '2', '  3' ]
+                //
+                // Let's run this command through `cmd.exe` using `child_process`:
+                //     js> void childprocess.spawn('cmd.exe', ['/s', '/c', 'node -p process.argv 1 2 "  3"']).stderr.on('data', console.log)
+                //
+                // We get the correct output, but when using node-pty:
+                //     js> void nodepty.spawn('cmd.exe', ['/s', '/c', 'node -p process.argv 1 2 "  3"']).on('data', console.log)
+                //
+                // Then the output looks like:
+                //     json> [ '...\\node.exe', '1', '2', '"', '3"' ]
+                //
+                // To fix that, we need to use a special node-pty feature and pass arguments as one string:
+                //     js> nodepty.spawn('cmd.exe', '/s /c "node -p process.argv 1 2 "  3""')
+                //
+                // Note the extra quotes that need to be added around the whole command.
+                commandLine = [...args, `"${shellCommand}"`].join(' ');
+            }
+
+            args.push(shellCommand);
+        } else {
+            // When running process tasks, `command` is the executable to run,
+            // and `args` are the arguments we want to pass to it.
+            command = osSpecificCommand.command;
+            if (Array.isArray(osSpecificCommand.args)) {
+                // Process task doesn't handle quotation: Normalize arguments from `ShellQuotedString` to raw `string`.
+                args = osSpecificCommand.args.map(arg => typeof arg === 'string' ? arg : arg.value);
+            } else {
+                args = [];
+            }
+        }
+        return { command, args, commandLine, options };
+    }
+
+    protected buildShellCommand(systemSpecificCommand: OsSpecificCommand, quotingFunctions?: ShellQuotingFunctions): string {
+        if (Array.isArray(systemSpecificCommand.args)) {
+            const commandLineElements: Array<string | ShellQuotedString> = [systemSpecificCommand.command, ...systemSpecificCommand.args].map(arg => {
+                // We want to quote arguments only if needed.
+                if (quotingFunctions && typeof arg === 'string' && this.argumentNeedsQuotes(arg, quotingFunctions)) {
+                    return {
+                        quoting: ShellQuoting.Strong,
+                        value: arg,
+                    };
+                } else {
+                    return arg;
+                }
+            });
+            return createShellCommandLine(commandLineElements, quotingFunctions);
+        } else {
+            // No arguments are provided, so `command` is actually the full command line to execute.
+            return systemSpecificCommand.command ?? '';
+        }
+    }
+
+    protected getShellSpecificOptions(command: string): ShellSpecificOptions {
+        if (/bash(.exe)?$/.test(command)) {
+            return {
+                quotingFunctions: BashQuotingFunctions,
+                execArgs: ['-c']
+            };
+        } else if (/wsl(.exe)?$/.test(command)) {
+            return {
+                quotingFunctions: BashQuotingFunctions,
+                execArgs: ['-e']
+            };
+        } else if (/cmd(.exe)?$/.test(command)) {
+            return {
+                quotingFunctions: CmdQuotingFunctions,
+                execArgs: ['/S', '/C']
+            };
+        } else if (/(ps|pwsh|powershell)(.exe)?/.test(command)) {
+            return {
+                quotingFunctions: PowershellQuotingFunctions,
+                execArgs: ['-c']
+            };
+        } else {
+            return {
+                quotingFunctions: BashQuotingFunctions,
+                execArgs: ['-l', '-c']
+            };
+        }
+    }
+
+    protected getOsSpecificCommand(taskConfig: TaskConfiguration): OsSpecificCommand {
+        // on windows, windows-specific options, if available, take precedence
+        if (isWindows && taskConfig.windows !== undefined) {
+            return this.getSystemSpecificCommand(taskConfig, 'windows');
+        } else if (isOSX && taskConfig.osx !== undefined) { // on macOS, mac-specific options, if available, take precedence
+            return this.getSystemSpecificCommand(taskConfig, 'osx');
+        } else if (!isWindows && !isOSX && taskConfig.linux !== undefined) { // on linux, linux-specific options, if available, take precedence
+            return this.getSystemSpecificCommand(taskConfig, 'linux');
+        } else { // system-specific options are unavailable, use the default
+            return this.getSystemSpecificCommand(taskConfig, undefined);
+        }
+    }
+
+    protected getCommand(processType: 'process' | 'shell', terminalProcessOptions: TerminalProcessOptions): string | undefined {
+        if (terminalProcessOptions.args) {
+            if (processType === 'shell') {
+                return terminalProcessOptions.args[terminalProcessOptions.args.length - 1];
+            } else if (processType === 'process') {
+                return `${terminalProcessOptions.command} ${terminalProcessOptions.args.join(' ')}`;
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * This is task specific, to align with VS Code's behavior.
+     *
+     * When parsing arguments, VS Code will try to detect if the user already
+     * tried to quote things.
+     *
+     * See: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/blob/d363b988e1e58cf49963841c498681cdc6cb55a3/src/vs/workbench/contrib/tasks/browser/terminalTaskSystem.ts#L1101-L1127
+     *
+     * @param value
+     * @param shellQuotingOptions
+     */
+    protected argumentNeedsQuotes(value: string, shellQuotingOptions: ShellQuotingFunctions): boolean {
+        const { characters } = shellQuotingOptions;
+        const needQuotes = new Set([' ', ...characters.needQuotes || []]);
+        if (!characters) {
+            return false;
+        }
+        if (value.length >= 2) {
+            const first = value[0] === characters.strong ? characters.strong : value[0] === characters.weak ? characters.weak : undefined;
+            if (first === value[value.length - 1]) {
+                return false;
+            }
+        }
+        let quote: string | undefined;
+        for (let i = 0; i < value.length; i++) {
+            // We found the end quote.
+            const ch = value[i];
+            if (ch === quote) {
+                quote = undefined;
+            } else if (quote !== undefined) {
+                // skip the character. We are quoted.
+                continue;
+            } else if (ch === characters.escape) {
+                // Skip the next character
+                i++;
+            } else if (ch === characters.strong || ch === characters.weak) {
+                quote = ch;
+            } else if (needQuotes.has(ch)) {
+                return true;
+            }
+        }
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    protected getSystemSpecificCommand(taskConfig: TaskConfiguration, system: 'windows' | 'linux' | 'osx' | undefined): OsSpecificCommand {
+        // initialize with default values from the `taskConfig`
+        let command: string | undefined = taskConfig.command;
+        let args: Array<string | ShellQuotedString> | undefined = taskConfig.args;
+        let options: CommandOptions = deepClone(taskConfig.options) || {};
+
+        if (system) {
+            if (taskConfig[system].command) {
+                command = taskConfig[system].command;
+            }
+            if (taskConfig[system].args) {
+                args = taskConfig[system].args;
+            }
+            if (taskConfig[system].options) {
+                options = taskConfig[system].options;
+            }
+        }
+
+        if (options.cwd) {
+            options.cwd = this.asFsPath(options.cwd);
+        }
+
+        if (command === undefined) {
+            throw new Error('The `command` field of a task cannot be undefined.');
+        }
+
+        return { command, args, options };
+    }
+
+    protected asFsPath(uriOrPath: string): string {
+        return (uriOrPath.startsWith('file:'))
+            ? FileUri.fsPath(uriOrPath)
+            : uriOrPath;
+    }
+
+    /**
+     * @deprecated
+     *
+     * Remove ProcessTaskRunner.findCommand, introduce process "started" event
+     * Checks for the existence of a file, at the provided path, and make sure that
+     * it's readable and executable.
+     */
+    protected async executableFileExists(filePath: string): Promise<boolean> {
+        return new Promise<boolean>(async (resolve, reject) => {
+            fs.access(filePath, fs.constants.F_OK | fs.constants.X_OK, err => {
+                resolve(err ? false : true);
+            });
+        });
+    }
+}