Re: Runtime.getRuntime.exec() without exiting the main program

From:
Andrea Francia <andrea.francia@gmx.it.invalid>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 13 Feb 2008 20:09:49 GMT
Message-ID:
<h8Isj.245363$%k.376359@twister2.libero.it>
knguyen wrote:

On Feb 13, 2:18 pm, Daniele Futtorovic
<da.futt.newsLOVELYS...@laposte.net> wrote:

On 2008-02-13 19:16 +0100, Andrea Francia allegedly wrote:

knguyen wrote:

Hi all,
I am having a problem using Runtime.getRuntime.exec(). My codes are as
follow
import java.io.*;
public class Test {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(aCommand);
    while (true) {}
}
}
for some reason, the command is not executed until the program exits.
This causes trouble only in Windows because I tested with Linux and it
works fine.
Thanks you

Try this:
import java.io.*;
public class Test {
public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
    Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(aCommand);
    p.waitFo*t*();
}
}

:-)

<http://java.sun.com/javase/6/docs/api/java/lang/Process.html#waitFor()>


Thank you. I forgot to mention I also tried it but I'd like to have
both running. I am trying to invoke a media player, so I would like my
application to do something else while the media is running.


Then use

import java.io.*;
public class Test {
   public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
     Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(aCommand);
     doSomething();
   }
}

The problem of while(true) {} is that consumes CPU for do nothing, and
if the scheduling is not preemptive it continue to consume CPU.

Instead of while(true) {} you can use this:

while(true) {
   try{
     Thread.sleep(10000);
   } catch(InterruptedException e) {
   }
}

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