Thread hangs reading from process output streams, even though process has terminated. (possible JDK bug?)

[roger riggs]

Thanks, feel free to add any additional information to the issue.

Roger

On 5/29/2014 9:41 AM, Bruno Medeiros wrote:
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> On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 2:32 PM, roger riggs <roger.riggs at oracle.com 
> <mailto:roger.riggs at oracle.com>> wrote:
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>     Hi Bruno,
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>     Create an issue:
>     JDK-8044321 <https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8044321> EOF
>     does not occur reading input from spawned cmd.exe process
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>     I was able to reproduce it on java 7 but not java 8.
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> Cool, thanks.
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>     The implementation of Process does not mix handling of one Process
>     instance with another
>     so it may be an interaction specific to cmd.exe.
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>     Roger
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> I don't think so: This bug originally occurred with processes other 
> than cmd.exe (the two processes where not even from the same 
> executable, BTW). I only changed it to cmd.exe for the sake of having 
> a simpler example that anyone could try, since cmd.exe is included 
> with Windows.
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>
> -- 
> Bruno Medeiros
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