On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 09:40, Paulo Levi <i30...@gmail.com> wrote: > I thought there was the danger of deadlocks if the std.out and std.err > wasn't drained?
Well, yes, there is a danger of deadlocks, but this can be avoided by: - having separate threads read stdout and stderr - closing the various streams in the parent (but might cause child to exit) - using redirectErrorStream - using new redirection facilities in jdk7 http://download.java.net/jdk7/docs/api/java/lang/ProcessBuilder.html > To be clear, you're saying that if i call this, and allow the parent > to be killed (by throwing a Error for instance), the child process > lives still? (I believe i can't call System.exit(1) without all jvm > dying right?) Why not try it? System.exit should only cause one jdk to exit directly. Martin
