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Runtime.exec() return codes

843798Nov 10 2006 — edited Feb 21 2007
running on SuSe and RH Linux...

I issued Runtime.getRuntime().exec("program") to launch "program". I waited for the return/exit code of the process from which I intentionally abnormally killed the process using "kill -9" giving me a return code value of 129. However if i run "program" directly in a shell console, and stop it using "kill -9", the exit code for this seems to give me value 137.

Can someone tell me why these exit codes differ from spawning "program" directly from a Linux shell console vs. using Java to exec the process?


Thanks.
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