java.lang.Process.waitFor()

[Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>]

Andrew Haley writes:
 > Erik Poupaert writes:
 >  > 
 >  > When forking a subprocess in gcj, java.lang.Process.waitFor() may
 >  > return, before I've finished reading Process.getInputStream() or
 >  > Process.getErrorStream().
 >  > 
 >  > Does anybody know what the appropriate way is to wait for the
 >  > inputstream-reading thread to complete? What I do now, is to create
 >  > a method "finished()" that will only return true when the
 >  > Process.getInputStream() is empty:
 >  > 
 >  > 		while (!threadOut.finished()) 
 >  > 		{
 >  > 			Thread.sleep(50);
 >  > 		}
 >  > 
 >  > Is there a better way to do this? I mean with all the
 >  > monitor/threading infrastructure available in gcj, the snippet
 >  > above probably looks rather primitive.
 > 
 > Why not simply wait on an object with "synchronized"?

Finger error.  I mean "wait".  :-)

Andrew.