Re: Process.waitFor() blocks forever
On 10/12/2010 1:39 PM, John Smith wrote:
On Oct 12, 1:16 am, Daniel Pitts
<newsgroup.spamfil...@virtualinfinity.net> wrote:
On 10/8/2010 2:17 PM, John Smith wrote:
when I double click on test.cmd within Windows Explorer it runs and
terminates fine by itself.
When I try running test.cmd via Java with the following, then the
process blocks "forever" on eqsKM.waitFor()
Process eqsKM = java.lang.Runtime.getRuntime().exec("H:\\Programs\
\Murex EQT PROD\\test.cmd", null, workingDir);
int exitValue = eqsKM.waitFor();
I opened up Task Manager and I see an instance of cmd.exe with 00 CPU
usage.
Any suggestions on why the Java app blocks on
int exitValue = eqsKM.waitFor();
And how to fix the hanging?
Thanks.
One possibility is that you need to drain the stderr and stdout streams.
Also, it is often better to use ProcessBuilder, so arguments don't get
misinterpreted (like I suspect they are in this case.)
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Thanks - waitFor stopped hanging after I flushed stdout and stderr.
But why do I have to flush the stdout and stderr in order for the
process to continue?
Because while stdout and stderr may be buffered, the buffer won't grow
to infinite size (OOM anyone?). Since the size is arbitrarily small,
you don't know how many bytes will be enough to "plug" that buffer.
When a buffer is full, it is often convenient to block writes to that
buffer until more space is available.
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