Hi Tim,

Did we ever try this approach of catching the System.exit() call?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5549720/how-to-prevent-calls-to-system-exit-from-terminating-the-jvm

Though I imagine calling System.setSecurityManager() isn’t appropriate for a 
library :)

— Ken


> On Jul 28, 2021, at 7:18 AM, Tim Allison <talli...@apache.org> wrote:
> 
> All,
> 
>  I'm trying to upgrade the surefire plugin in Apache Tika, and I'm
> running into "forked vm terminated without properly saying goodbye"
> [0].
> 
>  Tika uses a bunch of dependencies we have no control over.  At one
> point, we had a parser with a "feature" that called System.exit.  We
> have code that defends against this kind of thing by forking and
> monitoring the forked process for early termination, and we'd like to
> test this forking code.  Is there any way to test this with more
> recent versions of the surefire plugin, or is there a recommended
> workaround?
> 
>  Thank you.
> 
>            Best,
> 
>                  Tim
> 
> [0] 
> http://maven.apache.org/surefire/maven-surefire-plugin/faq.html#vm-termination

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