Process API Updates (JEP 102)

[Roger Riggs]

Hi Martin,

Good idea,  I'll put something together in the next couple of weeks.

Roger


On 3/25/14 1:54 AM, Martijn Verburg wrote:
> Hi Roger,
>
> Is there a short survey we could send out to the wider dev community 
> on this one?  I think just about every day to day Java developer has 
> had to use Process at some stage in their career.
>
> Cheers,
> Martijn
>
>
> On 24 March 2014 21:11, roger riggs <roger.riggs at oracle.com 
> <mailto:roger.riggs at oracle.com>> wrote:
>
>     Hi,
>
>     I'm starting to work on JEP 102, Process API Updates for JDK 9.
>     The use cases identified include test execution and build systems such
>     as Jtreg and Hudson/Jenkins. And there is a use-case for using Java
>     to monitor the health of a more complex system where the processes
>     are not spawned by the same manager.
>
>     The current API of Process itself is pretty complete with the
>     addition of a getPid
>     method to enable identification of subprocesses spawned by the
>     application
>     and allow external identification.  It will not be possible to
>     intercept the input,
>     output and error streams of an arbitrary process.
>
>     From the scope of the JEP, a fairly simple API seems sufficient.
>      - Enumerate the direct children
>      - The rest of the functions are similar to Process
>        - to terminate a process, forcibly and normally
>        - to destroy a process and all of its children recursively
>        - to check if one is alive
>        - to waitFor for termination and retrieve the exit status
>
>     Are there use cases for which this is insufficient?  Please comment.
>
>     Thanks, Roger
>
>