20.15

java.lang.Process

THE PACKAGE JAVA.LANG

20.15.4

public abstract int waitFor()

throws InterruptedException

This method causes the current thread to wait, if necessary, until the process rep 

resented by this

Process

 object has terminated. Then the exit value of the process

is returned. By convention, the value

0

 indicates normal termination.

If the current thread is interrupted ( 20.20.31) by another thread while it is

waiting, then the wait is ended and an

InterruptedException

 is thrown.

20.15.5

public abstract int exitValue()

throws IllegalThreadStateException

If the process represented by this

Process

 object has not yet terminated, then an

IllegalThreadStateException

 is thrown. Otherwise, the exit value of the pro 

cess is returned. By convention, the value

0

 indicates normal termination.

20.15.6

public abstract void destroy()

The process represented by this

Process

 object is forcibly terminated.

It was my hint to speak such was the process.

 William Shakespeare,

Othello

, Act I, scene iii

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