supported creating a launcher for a FilePath.

git-svn-id: https://hudson.dev.java.net/svn/hudson/trunk/hudson/main@2573 71c3de6d-444a-0410-be80-ed276b4c234a

core/src/main/java/hudson/FilePath.java

@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ import hudson.remoting.VirtualChannel;
 import hudson.remoting.DelegatingCallable;
 import hudson.util.IOException2;
 import hudson.model.Hudson;
+import hudson.model.TaskListener;
+import hudson.Launcher.LocalLauncher;
+import hudson.Launcher.RemoteLauncher;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.BuildException;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.DirectoryScanner;
 import org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Copy;
@@ -693,6 +696,17 @@ public final class FilePath implements Serializable {
         }
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Creates a {@link Launcher} for starting processes on the node
+     * that has this path.
+     */
+    public Launcher createLauncher(TaskListener listener) {
+        if(channel==null)
+            return new LocalLauncher(listener);
+        else
+            return new RemoteLauncher(listener,channel,isUnix());
+    }
+
     @Deprecated
     public String toString() {
         // to make writing JSPs easily, return local