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

I thing that this is simple and better approach (we don't need AutoResetEvent):

public static string GGSCIShell(string Path, string Command)
{
    using (Process process = new Process())
    {
        process.StartInfo.WorkingDirectory = Path;
        process.StartInfo.FileName = Path + @"\ggsci.exe";
        process.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
        process.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
        process.StartInfo.RedirectStandardInput = true;
        process.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;

        StringBuilder output = new StringBuilder();
        process.OutputDataReceived += (sender, e) =>
        {
            if (e.Data != null)
            {
                output.AppendLine(e.Data);
            }
        };

        process.Start();
        process.StandardInput.WriteLine(Command);
        process.BeginOutputReadLine();


        int timeoutParts = 10;
        int timeoutPart = (int)TIMEOUT / timeoutParts;
        do
        {
            Thread.Sleep(500);//sometimes halv scond is enough to empty output buff (therefore "exit" will be accepted without "timeoutPart" waiting)
            process.StandardInput.WriteLine("exit");
            timeoutParts--;
        }
        while (!process.WaitForExit(timeoutPart) && timeoutParts > 0);

        if (timeoutParts <= 0)
        {
            output.AppendLine("------ GGSCIShell TIMEOUT: " + TIMEOUT + "ms ------");
        }

        string result = output.ToString();
        return result;
    }
}