New to Java

Hi All,

I have a problem where I need to find out the hard and soft open file limits for the process in linux from within a java program. When I execute ulimit from the terminal it gives separate values for hard and soft open file limits.

From shell if I run the command then the output is given below:

$ ulimit -n
1024
$ ulimit -Hn
4096

The java program is given below:

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.Reader;
import java.io.StringWriter;
import java.io.Writer;

public class LinuxInteractor {
public static int executeCommand(String command, boolean waitForResponse, OutputHandler handler) {
int shellExitStatus = -1;
ProcessBuilder pb = new ProcessBuilder("bash", "-c", command);
pb.redirectErrorStream(true);
try {
Process shell = pb.start();

if (waitForResponse) {

// To capture output from the shell
InputStream shellIn = shell.getInputStream();

// Wait for the shell to finish and get the return code
shellExitStatus = shell.waitFor();

convertStreamToStr(shellIn, handler);
shellIn.close();
}
}

catch (IOException e) {
System.out
.println("Error occured while executing Linux command. Error Description: "
+ e.getMessage());
}
catch (InterruptedException e) {
System.out
.println("Error occured while executing Linux command. Error Description: "
+ e.getMessage());
}
return shellExitStatus;
}

public static String convertStreamToStr(InputStream is, OutputHandler handler) throws IOException {

if (is != null) {
Writer writer = new StringWriter();

char[] buffer = new char[1024];
try {
Reader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(is,
"UTF-8"));
int n;
while ((n = reader.read(buffer)) != -1) {
String output = new String(buffer, 0, n);
writer.write(buffer, 0, n);

if(handler != null)
handler.execute(output);
}
} finally {
is.close();
}
return writer.toString();
} else {
return "";
}
}

public abstract static class OutputHandler {
public abstract void execute(String str);
}

public static void main(String[] args) {
OutputHandler handler = new OutputHandler() {
@Override
public void execute(String str) {
System.out.println(str);
}
};

System.out.print("ulimit -n : ");
LinuxInteractor.executeCommand("ulimit -n", true, handler);
System.out.print("ulimit -Hn : ");
LinuxInteractor.executeCommand("ulimit -Hn", true, handler);
}
}

If I run this program the output is given below:

$ java LinuxInteractor
ulimit -n : 4096

ulimit -Hn : 4096

I have used ubuntu 12.04, Groovy Version: 1.8.4 JVM: 1.6.0_29 for this execution.

Please help me in understanding this behavior and how do I get a correct result from withing the java program.