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

You'd need a 2. thread that interrupts the thread that calls .waitFor(); Some non trivial synchronization will be needed to make it robust, but the basics are:

TimeoutThread:

 Thread.sleep(timeout);
 processThread.interrupt();

ProcessThread:

  try {
      proc.waitFor(); 
    } catch (InterruptedException e) {
       proc.destroy();
    }