[jira] Updated: (EXEC-34) Race condition prevent watchdog working using ExecuteStreamHandler

["Siegfried Goeschl (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Siegfried Goeschl updated EXEC-34:
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    Priority: Minor  (was: Critical)

Changing priority to minor since this is an artificial problem not happening in production - nobody would start a subprocess and immediately kill it.

> Race condition prevent watchdog working using ExecuteStreamHandler
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: EXEC-34
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/EXEC-34
>             Project: Commons Exec
>          Issue Type: Bug
>         Environment: Windows Vista 64bit, dual core CPU
>            Reporter: Marco Ferrante
>            Assignee: Siegfried Goeschl
>            Priority: Minor
>
> Consider this test case (in _DefaultExecutorTest_ class):
> {noformat}
>     /**
>      * Start a async process using a stream handler and terminate it manually
>      * before the watchdog timeout occurs
>      */
>     public void testExecuteAsyncWithStreamHandlerAndUserTermination() throws Exception {
>         CommandLine cl = new CommandLine(foreverTestScript);
>         ExecuteWatchdog watchdog = new ExecuteWatchdog(Integer.MAX_VALUE);
>         PumpStreamHandler streamHanlder = new PumpStreamHandler(System.out, System.err);
>         exec.setStreamHandler(streamHanlder);
>         MockExecuteResultHandler handler = new MockExecuteResultHandler();
>         exec.execute(cl, handler);
>         // DON'T wait for script to run
>         //Thread.sleep(2000);
>         // teminate it
>         watchdog.destroyProcess();
>         assertTrue("Watchdog should have killed the process",watchdog.killedProcess());
>     }
> {noformat}
> It fails (at least in my environment) because when _watchdog.destroyProcess()_ is invoked the external process is not bound to the watchdog yet.
> Although there are possible several workarounds, but all of them seem to me very intrusive in the code. So, I prefer some discussion before preparing and submitting a patch.
> IMHO, the watchdog should handle a reference to the thread running the process, not to the process itself. In this way, interrupting signals can be transport using default _interrupt()_ method of class _Thread_.

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