Re: Problem with amtape "hanging" when forked from Java

Nathan Stratton Treadway <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.archivers.amanda.user
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On Tue, Mar 08, 2022 at 18:27:47 -0500, Robert Heller wrote:
> 
> I've written a Java program that goes through vaulted tapes and forks amtape 
> (using Runtime.getRuntime().exec(()), and when a non-existant tape label is 
> asked for, amtape "hangs".  I cannot figure out why or how to get amtape to 
> just exit with an error (which I can then handle).

Does it still hang if you pass an argument "-ointeractivity=''" when you
exec amtape?

If it does still hang, what do "lsof -p" and "strace -p" show on the
amtape process while it's stuck?

							Nathan

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