Name: tb29552 Date: 11/18/98


/*

This is a bug that was evidently introduced in
JDK 1.2 RC1.

I have an application that repeatedly invokes a program
by creating a Process object with the Runtime.exec
method. The process is destroyed when completed.
However, since the introduction of JDK 1.2 RC1, this
only works a few times before a bogus IOException
occurs. Evidently, system file handles are not getting
freed up when a Process object is destroyed.

Here is a test case the demonstrates the problem.
(By the way, I'm on a Solaris 5.5.1/x86 platform).

*/
import java.io.IOException;
class FHT {
    public static void main(String args[]) {
        for (int i = 0; i < 4000; i++) {
            try {
                Process p = Runtime.getRuntime().exec("/bin/echo hello");
                p.destroy();
            }
            catch(IOException x) {
                System.err.println("Bogus IOException after " + i +
                                   " invocations: " + x.getMessage());
                return;
            }
        }
    }
}

(Review ID: 42890)
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