java native Process timeout

Question

At the moment I execute a native process using the following:

java.lang.Process process = Runtime.getRuntime().exec(command); 
int returnCode = process.waitF         


        

Answer 1

If you're using Java 8 or later (API 26 or later for Android) you could simply use the waitFor with timeout:

Process p = ...
if(!p.waitFor(1, TimeUnit.MINUTE)) {
    //timeout - kill the process. 
    p.destroy(); // consider using destroyForcibly instead
}