I have been implementing a program to compile and run other applications. I was wondering if there is a way to terminate a program when my application discovers that there is an issue e.g. infinite loop. I tried to using process.Destroy() but it kills the CMD not that actual program that has infinite loop...
Your help is really appreciated.
Here is a part of my code:
synchronized (pro) {
pro.wait(30000);
}
try{
pro.exitValue();
}catch (IllegalThreadStateException ex)
{
pro.destroy();
timeLimitExceededflag = true;
System.out.println("NOT FINISHED123");
System.exit(0);
}
}
Basically I am making my application to invoke the cmd using a processBuilder. This code terminates the CMD but if it runs a program that has an infinite loop that application will be still running which affects my servers performance.
I'd suggest to use the following solution:
- start your program with a title specified
- get PID of the process using "tasklist" command. A CSV parser required. There are tons of available I believe, like org.apache.commons.csv.CSVParser etc :)
- kill the process by "taskkill" command using PID.
Here is some part of code which may be useful:
public static final String NL = System.getProperty("line.separator", "\n");
public <T extends Appendable> int command(String... cmd) throws Exception {
return command(null, cmd);
}
public <T extends Appendable> int command(T out, String... cmd) throws Exception {
try {
final ProcessBuilder pb = new ProcessBuilder(cmd);
pb.redirectErrorStream(true);
final Process proc = pb.start();
final BufferedReader rd = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(proc.getInputStream()));
for (;;) {
final String line = rd.readLine();
if (line == null) {
break;
}
if (out != null) {
out.append(line);
out.append(NL);
}
}
return proc.waitFor();
} catch (InterruptedException e) {
throw new IOException(e);
}
}
public void startProcessWithTitle(String pathToExe, String title) throws Exception {
command("cmd.exe", "/C", "start", '"' + pathToExe + '"', '"' + title + '"', ..cmd.params..);
}
public int findProcessByTitle(String title) throws Exception {
final StringBuilder list = new StringBuilder();
if (command(list, "tasklist", "/V", "/FO", "csv") != 0) {
throw new RuntimeException("Cannot get tasklist. " + list.toString());
}
final CSVReader csv = new CSVReader(new StringReader(list.toString()), ',', true, "WindowsOS.findProcessByTitle");
csv.readHeaders(true); // headers
int pidIndex = csv.getHeaderIndex("PID");
int titleIndex = csv.getHeaderIndex("Window Title");
while (csv.nextLine()) {
final String ttl = csv.getString(titleIndex, true);
if (ttl.contains(title)) {
return csv.getInt(pidIndex);
}
}
Utils.close(csv);
return -1;
}
public boolean killProcess(int pid) throws Exception {
return command("taskkill", "/T", "/F", "/PID", Integer.toString(pid)) == 0;
}