[Mono-list] Process doesn't give back the hand on Windows

Gonzalo Paniagua Javier reply.to.the.list.iam.suscribed@notexists.ximian.com
Mon, 09 May 2005 16:19:06 -0600


On Mon, 2005-05-09 at 18:32 +0200, Vincent Arnoux wrote:
> Hello,
> I am trying to make work a mono app under Windows and I am having a hard
> time with an external process execution that doesn't give the hand back:
>   System.Diagnostics.Process proc = new System.Diagnostics.Process();
>   proc.StartInfo.FileName = "C:\\WINNT\\system32\\rsh.exe";
>   proc.StartInfo.Arguments = "machine -l mylogin \"./myscript\"";	
>   proc.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
>   proc.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
>   proc.Start();
>   proc.WaitForExit();
>   string output = proc.StandardOutput.ReadToEnd();
>   Console.WriteLine(output);
>   Console.WriteLine("End of script");
> 
> I never can read the "End of script" line. What am I doing bad ?

Is the process writing to stderr? If so, as you're only reading stdout,
it may block when writing to StandardError.

-Gonzalo