This is a reasonable request. But if you put platform-specific information into the String, then people will start treating that as an API (parsing the string), which is undesirable.
On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 12:33 PM, Steven Schlansker <stevenschlans...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi core-libs-dev, > > I recently was diagnosing a problem relating to an external program invoked > via > the ProcessBuilder API. > > The returned Process is an instance of java.lang.UNIXProcess, which does > not have a toString method. > > While I understand that the concepts of "pid" etc are not cross-platform, > it might be useful to operators to have the toString method > dump them as diagnostic information. > > Imagine if instead of > > "java.lang.UNIXProcess@<hashCode>" > > you could see > > "UNIXProcess[running=true, pid=1234]" > "UNIXProcess[running=false, exitCode=127]" > > This seems like it would be a fairly trivial change that could help some > operator down the road. > > Is this a reasonable request? Thanks, > Steven >
