Java hangs when trying to close a ProcessBuilder OutputStream
- by Jeff Bullard
I have the following Java code to start a ProcessBuilder, open an OutputStream, have the process write a string to an OutputStream, and then close the OutputStream. The whole thing hangs indefinitely when I try to close the OutputStream. This only happens on Windows, never on Mac or Linux.
Some of the related questions seem to be close to the same problem I'm having, but I haven't been able to figure out how to apply the answers to my problem, as I am a relative newbie with Java. Here is the code. You can see I have put in a lot of println statements to try to isolate the problem.
System.out.println("GenMic trying to get the input file now");
System.out.flush();
OutputStream out = child.getOutputStream();
try {
System.out.println("GenMic getting ready to write the input file to out");
System.out.flush();
out.write(intext.getBytes());
System.out.println("GenMic finished writing to out");
System.out.flush();
out.close();
System.out.println("GenMic closed OutputStream");
System.out.flush();
} catch (IOException iox) {
System.out.println("GenMic caught IOException 2");
System.out.flush();
String detailedMessage = iox.getMessage();
System.out.println("Exception: " + detailedMessage);
System.out.flush();
throw new RuntimeException(iox);
}
And here is the output when this chunk is executed:
GenMic trying to get the input file now
GenMic getting ready to write the input file to out
GenMic finished writing to out
