Process trees and termination

[Stuart Marks]

On 6/26/14 7:23 AM, roger riggs wrote:
> On 6/26/2014 4:55 AM, Peter Levart wrote:
>> - Will there be a guarantee that ProcessHandle objects returned from factory
>> methods: [...]
>> representing those processes that were started by ProcessBuilder API are
>> actually the same Process objects that were returned from the ProcessBuilder
>> API?

> The initial design does not have them returning Process instances.
> Process instances are capabilities and their reference accessibility is
> currently controlled
> by the code that created the Process.  If ProcessHandle gave out those Process
> instances
> it would break existing encapsulation.

Hi Roger,

This is an interesting point about the undesirability of leaking Process 
instances. I initially thought the relationship between ProcessHandle and 
Process objects would be unspecified, and possibly left to the implementation. 
But based on your comments, it sounds like the PH factories are **prohibited** 
from returning any instances of Process. Thus we'd have:

     Process proc = new ProcessBuilder(...).start();
     ProcessHandle ph = ProcessHandle.of(proc.getPid());
     assert !(ph instanceof Process);

It seems like it would be good idea to add this restriction to the specification.

s'marks