On Wed, 12 Oct 2022 16:30:07 GMT, Roger Riggs <rri...@openjdk.org> wrote:
> Process.waitFor() throws IllegalThreadStateException when a process returns > an exit code of 259. > As described in the bug report, `waitFor()` should not be sensitive to the > exit value. > Previously, it erroneously threw IllegalStateException. > Added a test to verify. The reporter of the issue provided additional details that it was their own application/program which was returning that exit value: > I encountered it while prototyping an idea involving a Java application > spawning a process running a C++ application that returned an exit value > indicating the number of items it processed. So this appears like the case where this change would help. I haven't found any conclusive/official Windows documentation which forbids user applications from returning this exit value (which represents `STILL_ACTIVE`). ------------- PR: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/10680
