process.waitFor() does not end

Question

I have a JAVA code where I am executing a perl script. Some scripts donot return a response code but require passwords for execution. My code does not return in those cases and process.waitFor() endlessly waits. Is there a way I can handle this?

Process process = pb.start();
            int returnCode = process.waitFor();
            System.out.print("return code>>"+ returnCode );

My code has the objective to run the command and show the response code.

Answer 1

I see two choices here:

• you can manage correctly stdin of the process by getting its OutputStream through Proecess::getOutputStream so that you can correctly send input and let the process finish
• you can destroy the process (see Process::destroy or Process::destroyForcibly ) but this implies that you must choose a maximum amount of time to wait before doing so (and could create problems since you are actually trying to kill a process maybe in the middle of some operation)