Curmudgeon Martin supports this change! I'm a little surprised we can implement it without native code.
--- The below should probably be in its own paragraph. + * The {@link #startPipe startPipe} method can be invoked to create + * a pipeline of new processes that send the output of each process + * directly to the next process. Each process has the attributes of + * its respective ProcessBuilder. --- I continue to be opposed to throwing UOE. But it seems I've lost that nano-argument. + * @throws UnsupportedOperationException + * If the operating system does not support the creation of processes. --- These statements are technically incorrect. + * The standard output of all processes except the first process + * are <i>null output streams</i> + * The standard input of all processes except the last process + * are <i>null input streams</i>. What you mean is that getOutputStream etc return null streams, but that's not what you say. --- Should this mention standard error? + * @throws IllegalArgumentException any of the redirects except the + * standard input of the first builder and the standard output of + * the last builder are not {@link Redirect#PIPE}.