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Re: a question about using ProcessBuilder to call external command

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On Wed, 12 Mar 2014 13:06:42 -0700 (PDT), zyng <xsli2@yahoo.com>
wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

>So if I don't drain the output of the child process, and too
much output and buffer saturated, the parent process will hang?! Will
the child process hang too? Or both processes hang? Since they are two
threads, so one thread cause another thread hang?

A thread is a execution stream running in the same address space.
exec/ProcessBuilder spawn a whole new address space, and usually do
not use the Java run time.  If it were java,you would just call the
main method.

for tips see http://mindprod.com/jgloss/exec.html
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Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com
"Incorrect documentation is often worse than no documentation."
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and the Eiffel language.

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a question about using ProcessBuilder to call external command zyng <xsli2@yahoo.com> - 2014-03-12 13:06 -0700
  Re: a question about using ProcessBuilder to call external command zyng <xsli2@yahoo.com> - 2014-03-12 13:10 -0700
    Re: a question about using ProcessBuilder to call external command Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-03-17 03:02 -0700
  Re: a question about using ProcessBuilder to call external command Eric Sosman <esosman@comcast-dot-net.invalid> - 2014-03-12 16:36 -0400
  Re: a question about using ProcessBuilder to call external command Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-03-16 01:03 -0700

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