On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 10:12:06AM +0200, Ralph Einfeldt wrote:
> Depending on the nature of the of the child process you can
> use different Variations of your solution.
> 
> That's our solution: (The child process writes lines to stdout)
> 
>   BufferedReader mInput = 
>         new BufferedReader(new
> InputStreamReader(mProcess.getInputStream()));
>   String mLine;
>   while ((mLine = mInput.readLine()) != null) {
>      doSomeThingWith(mLine);
>   }

That's fine. I'll try that and see if output flows better than
in my approach (since it always bugged me that output comes in
one chunk at the end of child termination - I'd prefer to see 
the output progress in the briwser window).

Still a question about your waitFor() example.
In my file processing loop, where should I put the 'waitFor()'?

> 
> > -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: Christoph Kukulies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 25. April 2001 09:45
> > An: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Betreff: Re: Reaped pid = 24793, status = 0
> > 
> > 
> > On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 09:28:29AM +0200, Ralph Einfeldt wrote:
> > > 
> > >   Process mProcess = 
> > >     Runtime.getRuntime().exec(new String[] {<Command>, 
> > <arg0>[, arg1-n]}); 
> > >   ...
> > >   try {
> > >     mProcess.waitFor();
> > >   } catch (Throwable ex) {
> > >   }
> > >   mProcess.destroy();
> > 
> > Thanks for the elegant shorthand writing.
> > While bein at it: Does anyone know a better way to obtain
> > the stdout of the exec'ed process?
> > 
> >   try {
> >     int b;
> > 
> >    cmdarray[0]="/home/kuku/bin/someexec";
> >    cmdarray[1]="/usr/local/www/data/uploads/" + filename;
> > 
> >  // now you have the actual file, so you can get some some 
> > more info out of that
> >  // and put in a database or something to keep track of it.
> >    Process p=runner.exec(cmdarray);
> >    InputStream i=p.getInputStream();
> > 
> >    while((b=i.read()) >=0) {
> >        out.write(b);
> >        out.flush();
> >    }
> >   } catch(Exception e) {
> >             out.println("some exception occured [" + e + "]");
> >             e.printStackTrace();
> >     }
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > > > -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht-----
> > > > Von: Christoph Kukulies 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 25. April 2001 09:07
> > > An: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Betreff: Re: Reaped pid = 24793, status = 0
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 12:54:56PM -0400, Boyce, David wrote:
> > > > A guess: you're letting the object reference go out of 
> > > scope without doing a
> > > > waitFor() or similar. When it then gets garbage collected 
> > > the JVM tells you
> > > > what became of your abandoned child.
> > > 
> > > So should I do a WaitFor(p) (the process object to terminate?)
> > > 
> 
> -- 
> Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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