Question

I have no idea why this is hanging. I’m trying to capture output from a process run through commons-exec, and I continue to hang. I’ve provided an example program to demonstrate this behavior below.

import java.io.DataInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PipedInputStream;
import java.io.PipedOutputStream;
import org.apache.commons.exec.CommandLine;
import org.apache.commons.exec.DefaultExecutor;
import org.apache.commons.exec.ExecuteException;
import org.apache.commons.exec.PumpStreamHandler;
public class test {

public static void main(String[] args) {
    String command = "java";

    PipedOutputStream output = new PipedOutputStream();
    PumpStreamHandler psh = new PumpStreamHandler(output);

    CommandLine cl = CommandLine.parse(command);

    DefaultExecutor exec = new DefaultExecutor();
    DataInputStream is = null;
    try {
        is = new DataInputStream(new PipedInputStream(output));
        exec.setStreamHandler(psh);
        exec.execute(cl);
    } catch (ExecuteException ex) {
    } catch (IOException ex) {
    }

    System.out.println("huh?");
}
}

Answer 1

According to the javadoc, execute(CommandLine command) is synchronous, execute(CommandLine command, ExecuteResultHandler handler) on the other hand is asynchronous.