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Process related problem

Posted by Venkatesh on April 20, 2000 at 12:58 PM

hi,

I am having a small problem using the Process class in
java ( JDK1.1.6). I have written a small java class (say InputReader ) that reads the input from the keyboard and ends when the user enters the 'Ctrl+Z'.

I have another class that starts a Process thru
Runtime.getRuntime().exec() method and executes the above
program "java InputReader" . The problem is that once i
start the Process and waitFor the process to end using the Process.waitFor() method it never returns.

This happens even when i get the OutputStream of the
Process and write something to it and then close it.

Thanks in advance,

venkatesh

• The JVM is the process as far as the OS knows Mike Nelis May 24, 2001 at 2:38 PM (0)