Name: rm29839 Date: 12/10/97


Try this little bit of code on a WinNT box - the process.waitFor() call fails
to ever return. Works fine on HP/Sun/Linux JDK running 1.1.3.

String command = "C:/dev/jdk/bin/java";
System.out.println("---> Executing "+command);
Process process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(command);
System.out.println("---> Waiting for completion of waitFor()");
process.waitFor();
System.out.println("---> waitFor() completed");

The waitFor() never returns - fails for all applications

import java.io.*;
public class Test {

  public static void main (String[] args){
    try{
    String command = "e:\win32\bin\java";
 //change this to match where your java lives
    System.out.println("--->Executing " + command);
    Process process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(command);
    System.out.println("--->Waiting for completion of " + command);
    process.waitFor();
    System.out.println("--->Done Waiting!");
  }catch(IOException e){}catch (InterruptedException e){}

  }
}

This works fine under 1.1.5 on Solaris, but on win32
(Review ID: 21666)
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