RFR [doc] 8220237: ProcessBuilder API documentation typo

Daniel Fuchs daniel.fuchs at oracle.com
Tue Mar 12 15:44:04 UTC 2019


Looks good to me Roger.

It's kind of unfortunate that the process output
is returned by a method named getInputStream(),
even though I understand that's a mirror effect...

best regards,

-- daniel

On 12/03/2019 15:32, Roger Riggs wrote:
> Please review a doc fix to refer to the correct method reading from the 
> process.
> 
> diff --git a/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/ProcessBuilder.java 
> b/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/ProcessBuilder.java
> --- a/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/ProcessBuilder.java
> +++ b/src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/ProcessBuilder.java
> @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ import sun.security.action.GetPropertyAc
>    * <li><a id="redirect-output">a destination for <i>standard output</i>
>    * and <i>standard error</i></a>.  By default, the subprocess writes 
> standard
>    * output and standard error to pipes.  Java code can access these pipes
> - * via the input streams returned by {@link Process#getOutputStream()} and
> + * via the input streams returned by {@link Process#getInputStream()} and
>    * {@link Process#getErrorStream()}.  However, standard output and
>    * standard error may be redirected to other destinations using
>    * {@link #redirectOutput(Redirect) redirectOutput} and
> 
> Issue: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8220237
> 
> Thanks, Roger



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