[jira] [Commented] (NIFI-1856) ExecuteStreamCommand Needs to Consume Standard Error

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ASF GitHub Bot commented on NIFI-1856:
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Github user trixpan commented on the issue:

    https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/1364
  
    @brosander are you still planning to review this at some stage? Happy to try to help if needed.
    
    Cheers!


> ExecuteStreamCommand Needs to Consume Standard Error
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: NIFI-1856
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/NIFI-1856
>             Project: Apache NiFi
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Alan Jackoway
>            Assignee: Karthik Narayanan
>
> I was using ExecuteStreamProcess to run certain hdfs commands that are tricky to write in nifi but easy in bash (e.g. {{hadoop fs -rm -r /data/*/2014/05/05}})
> However, my larger commands kept hanging even though when I run them from the command line they finish quickly.
> Based on http://www.javaworld.com/article/2071275/core-java/when-runtime-exec---won-t.html I believe that ExecuteStreamCommand and possibly other processors need to consume the standard error stream to prevent the processes from blocking when standard error gets filled.
> To reproduce. Create this as ~/write.py
> {code:python}
> import sys
> count = int(sys.argv[1])
> for x in range(count):
>     sys.stderr.write("ERROR %d\n" % x)
>     sys.stdout.write("OUTPUT %d\n" % x)
> {code}
> Create a flow that goes 
> # GenerateFlowFile - 5 minutes schedule 0 bytes size 
> # ExecuteStreamCommand - Command arguments /Users/alanj/write.py;100 Command Path python
> # PutFile - /tmp/write/
> routing output stream of ExecuteStreamCommand to PutFile
> When you turn everything on, you get 100 lines (not 200) of just the standard output in /tmp/write.
> Next, change the command arguments to /Users/alanj/write.py;100000 and turn everything on again. The command will hang.
> I believe that whenever you execute a process the way ExecuteStreamCommand is doing, you need to consume the standard error stream to keep it from blocking. This may also affect things like ExecuteProcess and ExecuteScript as well.



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