RFR: 8336479: Provide Process.waitFor(Duration)

[Alan Bateman]

On Wed, 17 Jul 2024 17:36:29 GMT, Naoto Sato <naoto at openjdk.org> wrote:

> Proposing a new overload method for `Process#waitFor()` which takes a `Duration` for the timeout value. This will reduce the possibility for making mistakes with the `TimeUnit` in the other overload method. A corresponding CSR has also been drafted.

src/java.base/share/classes/java/lang/Process.java line 481:

> 479:      * this method returns immediately with the value {@code false}.
> 480:      *
> 481:      * <p>The default implementation of this method polls the {@code exitValue}

There was discussion in the CSR on moving this to an `@implSpec`, are you going to do that change?

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PR Review Comment: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/20220#discussion_r1681550925