Launching, timing, and killing a child EXE process

[no_suchluck]

Hi All:

I'm relatively new to java, but had the following question: What is
the best way to launch a child EXE (non blocked, obviously), time the
execution of the EXE, and terminate the EXE if it is taking too long?
Short examples would also be helpful.

Thanks for any help...

 

[Knute Johnson]

Hi All:

I'm relatively new to java, but had the following question: What is
the best way to launch a child EXE (non blocked, obviously), time the
execution of the EXE, and terminate the EXE if it is taking too long?
Short examples would also be helpful.

Thanks for any help...

See the docs;

ProcessBuilder and Process classes.

Use the Process.waitFor() method and interrupt the waiting thread on
timeout.