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+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+# 
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+# 
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+#
+
+# Run a PowerShell scriptblock in a background process.
+param(
+    [scriptblock] $script  # scriptblock to run
+)
+
+# break out of the script on any errors
+trap { break }
+
+# In order to pass a scriptblock to another powershell instance, it must
+# be encoded to pass through the command line.
+$encodedScript = [convert]::ToBase64String(
+    [Text.Encoding]::Unicode.GetBytes([string] $script))
+
+#$p = new-object System.Diagnostics.Process
+$si = new-object System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo
+$si.WorkingDirectory = $pwd
+$si.FileName = (get-command powershell.exe).Definition
+$si.Arguments = "-encodedCommand $encodedScript"
+
+###### debugging setup
+#$si.CreateNoWindow = $true
+# UseShellExecute false required for RedirectStandard(Error, Output)
+#$si.UseShellExecute = $false
+#$si.RedirectStandardError = $true
+#$si.RedirectStandardOutput = $true
+######
+$si.UseShellExecute = $true
+
+##### Debugging, instead of the plain Start() above.
+#$output = [io.File]::AppendText("start.out")
+#$error = [io.File]::AppendText("start.err")
+$p = [System.Diagnostics.Process]::Start($si)
+#$output.WriteLine($p.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd())
+#$error.WriteLine($p.StandardError.ReadToEnd())
+#$p.WaitForExit()
+#$output.Close()