ProcessStartInfo hanging on “WaitForExit”? Why?

Question

I have the following code:

info = new System.Diagnostics.ProcessStartInfo(\"TheProgram.exe\", String.Join(\" \", args));
info.CreateNoWindow = true;
info.Win         


        

Answer 1

Credit to EM0 for https://stackoverflow.com/a/17600012/4151626

The other solutions (including EM0's) still deadlocked for my application, due to internal timeouts and the use of both StandardOutput and StandardError by the spawned application. Here is what worked for me:

Process p = new Process()
{
  StartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo()
  {
    FileName = exe,
    Arguments = args,
    UseShellExecute = false,
    RedirectStandardOutput = true,
    RedirectStandardError = true
  }
};
p.Start();

string cv_error = null;
Thread et = new Thread(() => { cv_error = p.StandardError.ReadToEnd(); });
et.Start();

string cv_out = null;
Thread ot = new Thread(() => { cv_out = p.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd(); });
ot.Start();

p.WaitForExit();
ot.Join();
et.Join();

Edit: added initialization of StartInfo to code sample