Name: rm29839 Date: 01/21/98


The following Java program never completes:

import java.lang.*;

public class Test
{
   static public void main(String args[]) {
      System.out.println("Launcing rmid");

      try { Runtime.getRuntime().exec("rmid"); }
      catch (java.io.IOException e) {
         System.out.println(e);
         System.exit(1);
      }

      System.out.println("Waiting");
      try { Thread.currentThread().sleep(3000); }
      catch (InterruptedException e) { }
      System.out.println("Done");

   }

}

The sleep never returns. It will return if I kill
the rmid processes. It will return if I remove the
very first print statement ("Launching rmid"). It
will return if I exec something other than rmid.
It will return if I use green threads instead of
native threads. I've tried this on a number of
different machines. I even re-installed JDK1.2.

This worked before our sys admin installed the
following set of Solaris patches:

105580-02
105722-01
105724-01
105795-01

Have fun.
(Review ID: 23304)
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